DISCUSSED: Merlin has been cracking nuts, and Dan is enjoying a beverage; in Follow-Up, Dan has made great progress with his new voice assistant; Merlin has thoughts on choosing a dingus ecosystem that’s right for you; words mean things, and often you want the right “procedure word”; Merlin has some good Back to Work-adjacent media recommendations; do we really want to rebuild The Embarcadero Freeway? Really?; and, Dan has some new scholarship on the films of Stanley Kubrick.

Links for this episode:

• Opinion | That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habit You Can Unlearn. - The New York Times
  
• Efficiency is the Enemy
  
• Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind - Kindle edition by Brewer, Judson. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
  
• Watch YouTube TV on your Google Nest Display - Google Nest Help
  
• Procedure word - Wikipedia
  
• (7) Collative Learning - YouTube
  
• Embarcadero Freeway | CNU
  
• Old San Francisco: A Look At Before And After The Embarcadero Free Came Down | by UpOut SF | Medium
  
• An ode to the Embarcadero Freeway, the blight by the bay
  
• Amazon.com: Celery Man: Alexa Skills