Darnel Harris

Reece Martin (@RM_Transit) is a writer, systems thinker, and investigator who spent a decade documenting public transit systems around the world, building one of the deepest bodies of work anywhere on how cities move. We quickly learn that his YouTube channel was never really about transit. It was an investigation into how society works, told through the infrastructure everyone uses and almost no one stops to look at. Transportation lines become a table of contents for places themselves. We trace how Reece learned to see this way, from riding the New York subway alone at the age of 12, to wandering Tokyo at 2AM as a teenager, to the Urban Toronto forums and the foamers who film city buses for fun, to reading whole cities in Google Maps with the labels off. Reece explains why he decided to close the channel. Part of it is discipline: it’s a chapter, and it needs to end to be a cohesive whole. The rest is harder. After ten years of seeing what a subway can be, the daily ride home wears on him, and the change he believes in is decades away, so he’d rather give his time to problems where the feedback comes faster. From there the conversation opens up into EVs, autonomy, Waymo, AI, and the quiet awe of building things bigger than human scale, the kind of infrastructure that touches millions of lives long after the people who made it are gone. The same instinct, pointed at a new set of systems. This is a conversation about what infrastructure quietly reveals about society, how you can use any subject as a lens to understand everything else, when to walk away from something you love, and why caring about a thing might be the highest-leverage move you can make. The Other Stuff is hosted by @internetvin, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New. — Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:38 RMTransit and Documenting Transit Systems 00:10:21 Urban Toronto and Forums 00:19:52 Foamers & Paying Attention 00:26:50 Langley & the NYC Subway at 12 00:31:30 Tokyo at 2AM & Osaka 00:38:30 Singapore: If Apple Made a Subway 00:48:15 Platform Doors & Toronto vs the World 00:52:22 Chengdu Builds, Toronto Stalls 01:02:24 The Google Maps Method 01:11:52 Putting a Period on the Channel 01:25:59 Filmmaking, Writing, & 50 Terabytes 01:39:23 EVs & Battery Chemistry 01:41:44 A Robot Dressed as a Car 01:51:05 Waymo & the End of Owning a Car 01:58:28 Zonal Architecture & Cars as Phones 02:04:21 Autonomy Rewrites the Roads 02:13:21 AI Will Design the Systems 02:18:20 Humans Seek Entropy, Machines Seek Order 02:20:53 Caring Is the Highest Leverage

Today at CoA I was very happy to get approval for this great 4 storey, 16 unit apartment building on Gerrard near Norwood. Absolutely smooth sailing. All 2 bedrooms and has 1 level of underground parking.