Macbook Wireless Laptop setup

In the never ending search for the optimum working setup, this is the latest iteration.

Benefits: less heat, less weight, better feel, more productivity.

Take two pieces of foam board, 1/4 inch thick, duct tape together as shown.  This gives extra strength and adds almost no additional weight.

Standard Apple bluetooth trackpad above the keyboard to eliminate erroneous taps while typing.

The keyboard is the best.   Keytron K3, version 3.  The best feel.  I love it.

The mouse is a Logitech MX for lots of extra features that the Apple Magic Mouse lacks.

And the output is shown on the 65 inch Samsung display, via HDMI:

#CRM: How big is it?

How the $95 idea became more than $1 trillion

No research organization has tracked the CRM industry continuously under one unchanging definition from 1985 to the present. The cumulative figure therefore has to be reconstructed from published historical market estimates and interpolations between them.

The important benchmarks include approximately $1.2 billion in worldwide CRM revenue in 1997, $2.3 billion in 1998, $8.1 billion in 2007, $18.1 billion in 2012, $26.3 billion in 2015, $39.5 billion in 2017, $48.2 billion in 2018, $107.5 billion in 2023, and $128 billion in 2024. CFO Business Standard

Using those benchmarks, filling in the missing years, and extending the recent growth trajectory through October 2026 produces this approximate reconstruction:

Period	Estimated worldwide CRM software sales
1985–1995	$2 billion
1996–2005	$41 billion
2006–2015	$150 billion
2016–2020	$250 billion
2021–October 2026	$690 billion
Estimated total since 1985	About $1.1 trillion

Where do new ToBeWise™ insights come from?

This morning, I added a batch of about 150-ish insights to the online database that I had been saving over the last 6 months.  These bits of wisdom were found in my daily reading online, from wisdom accounts on facebook, instagram, and general browsing. Not all get saved, of course.  They must pass my personal filters for sensibility, importance, clarity, positivity, etc. 

My process has been simple, cut the quote from the source, and paste it into a photo in the iOS app Photos, or as a text message to myself.  That saves the moment, but still doesn't make it into the database.  I could go through the entire process for each quote, but it's a lot more efficient to do many at once.

Users can easily see the insights added, in reverse chronological order, by doing a Discover/General Lists/Recently Added. Date and time added are shown as well as the insight.

Once I review each of the insights and assign list names to each, and pull the trigger for the group, the upload to the online database is virtually instant, and these insights are automatically available to users without any work on their part at all.  They just appear. The additions are updated in the background. This works for both iOS devices as well as the new Android version.

After this big batch process, I asked AI to look for these quotes in my Photos and Messages on a daily basis. Wisdom daily! 

Another AI driven daily process is to look for ToBeWise™ oriented blog posts on this DBLM blog and repost on the ToBeWise™ specific blog at tobewise.co website. 

Android version of ToBeWise™ is now in beta

With a lot of help from GPT6, it seemed too easy to get the iOS version ported to android.  It really looks good on my new Google Mobile device (Samsung Galaxy A17 5G, from Amazon). 

It took me longer to get used to the android operating system and set up a Google Play account than it took GPT6 to convert the code, and that completely floored me.  One thing that made it a lot easier is that the iOS version was written in React Native (a good choice by Griffin a few years back).

Of course there were a good number of minor things in the new android version, but easily fixed. All the database stuff works, and notifications work.  

But it still needs a lot of deep testing and side by side comparisons with the iOS version, and lots more eyeballs (testers) on different screen sizes (iOS handles that automatically, but android not so much).

Siri with AI: not yet

 Just installed Mac OS 27, with upgraded Siri, and was looking for ways to inject new AI features into ToBeWise™ but after looking more thoroughly, it is not to be, yet (but I'm on the waitlist).  So I asked GPT.

it looks like siri with apple intelligence is not yet available, when will it be released?

You’re right, Michael. The new Siri AI is not yet generally available, even though macOS 27 is installed.

Apple has announced only that it will arrive as an English-language beta “later this year”—meaning sometime before the end of 2026. Apple has not given a specific date.

This is the version that adds:

• Personal-context searches across Mail, Messages, Photos, and Notes
• Natural back-and-forth conversations
• Awareness of what is on your screen
• Actions across apps
• A dedicated Siri app and conversation history

Apple’s macOS page describes Siri AI as “rolling out in English,” so availability may be phased rather than appearing for everyone simultaneously.

Your M5 MacBook Pro qualifies. Once released, it should arrive through a macOS 27 software update; keep System Settings → General → Software Update enabled.

My earlier description of those features made them sound as though they were already active in the public release. They are announced macOS 27 features, but the new Siri AI itself is still awaiting its public beta rollout.

To be Open or Closed, that is the question...

 

what are the pros and cons of making my app ToBeWise™ Open Source?

Michael, open sourcing ToBeWise could be valuable—but I would not open source the entire product. I would separate the software, quotation database, brand, and production infrastructure.

What “open source” would mean

True open source means other people may use, modify, redistribute, and commercially exploit the licensed code. Merely putting the code in a public GitHub repository is not enough; it needs an actual open-source license. Once code is public, existing forks and downloaded copies cannot be recalled simply by making the repository private again.

Pros and cons for ToBeWise:

Kill a bug, birth a bug, at least. One step forward, two steps back.

 

It is well known that one often introduces a new bug when attempting to fix a different bug.  Working with ToBeWise this morning was another of those occasions. I thought it would be helpful to document the lesson.  Here's the interaction:

I pasted this proof of bug into the chat window along with the comment below: