So I got back to my hotel just before midnight last night and had to catch a 6am flight out of Montana this morning. I quickly powered up my new iPhone 4s and asked Siri, the mobile assistant, to set an early morning an alarm.
Her reply:
I’ve set an alarm for 4:15 am. Don’t wake me up
Yeah, that’s right. My phone got sassy with me.
There have been several articles pointing this at. Siri is hilarious when you ask her about Hal or want her to make a 2001 reference. She refused to comment when my cousin asked her if she knew Tony Stark or was a member of SHIELD. She sang my brother a song the other night when he said he was tired, and wished him pleasant dreams.
Yes, the technology is awesome, but the personality is what people are writing about.
I’m already blown away that I can just tell my phone to set an alarm and it will or remind me to do something when I get home and it schedules a location-based reminder. As my grandpa often says, “You just can’t do that. It’s impossible” It truly is amazing.
Still, the personality is the icing on the cake. It’s what makes me smile a bit or laugh as I complete these incredible technology-aided tasks.
I know many of you are doing incredible things out there right now, but is your personality also shining through?
Sometimes, in an adept to make our interactions more “professional,” we simply make them sterile.
One of my mentors showed me the benefits of changing that. In some of my more recent marketing campaigns, my tone is more like me. It’s true that this may turn some off of my style, and they may not book me, but for others, they find it to be a really cool approach.
Rather than try to be some “professional” that I’m not, I get to be me. While I don’t always book extra business, I have made some cool new relationships.
So let’s attempt to keep a bit of Siri’s Sass in our own lives this week. Let’s do incredible/impossible things, but let’s do them with OUR personality