Smartphone check-in. But you can never leave.

You are having a lovely dinner with your spouse. And can't stop yourself from looking down at your smartphone, and the text you just received.

Out with old friends, having a great time. Yet you repeatedly jack out of this reality to post a picture -- of you and your friends having a great time -- on Facebook.

Standing in front of a great work of art, by an up-and-coming young artist and your first thought is: check-in on Foursquare.

We are all guilty of this. But, fear not, I do not come here to judge you. In fact, I don't think we've gone far enough. Bear with me.

Do you have trigger foods? Does having one potato chip *force* you into consuming the entire bag? What about procrastination? You know you have an important deadline yet you fire up the browser and visit your favorite websites. Day after day after day.

What about a college buddy? Is there one you hook up with, once or twice a year, then wake up the next morning hungover?

One of the keys to bad behavior is we fool ourselves into viewing certain activities in isolation. Similarly, one of the barriers to correcting this is lack of data. Which shouldn't be the case. Only it is, because our smartphones are stupid.

On my smartphone I track what I eat, each day. My smartphone has my grocery list. In a couple years, God willing, I will use it to pay for my purchases. Technically, I can track these now on my device, but that's too much work for me. My smartphone has my calendar. My check-ins. All my tweets and my Facebook updates are via my smartphone. As are my movements, since I carry this with me everywhere. It knows, for example, that right now, I am at:

• Place X, with
• Person Y, doing
• Dear Lord, have mercy on me

Only, my smartphone *never* tells me:

Brian, don't have that Werther's candy, based on past behavior it will only lead to you consuming 6 of them. My calendar is wide open for tonight. A call comes in, from my old friend, on my smartphone. "Brian! Dude! What are you up to!" My smartphone knows I have free time -- and it *ought* to know I'd be better off if I said, "can't tonight, have to --". Only, it doesn't.

Because, for all it's data about me, it offers no wisdom. Which is what I really need.