What is the talk "One Address For Every Relationship" about?

A talk by Viktor Grant on e-lationships: one address on your own domain for every relationship, all arriving in one inbox. The idea started in the 1990s. He believes he first wrote the word in 1999.

Viktor Grant, the founder and engineer of Earthgrid.

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A talk by Viktor Grant

One Address For Every Relationship

Give every relationship its own address.

Everything still lands in one inbox.

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The idea

What I Say

In the 1990s I had an epiphany.
Every relationship could be an alias on my own domain.

With a catch all address, I could make endless aliases.
I gave a different address to each person.

They all came to me, and I sorted them.
That broke the silo of email: one address for every relationship.

A relationship asks who you are in relation to me.
An e-lationship is elated: fun, joyful, a vessel for bliss.

I believe I first wrote the word e-lationship in a book in 1999.

Relationships are Einstein. E-lationships are Bucky Fuller.

Good enough is why email survives.
So this works inside the inbox you already have.

Email on your own domain Your address, your domain, as many aliases as you want.

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What People Leave With

A way to give each relationship its own address.
The power to shut one address off and keep the rest.
A reason to want a relationship that is joyful, not only tracked.

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Questions I Would Bring

Who has an address of yours that they should not?
What would change if each person had their own address?
What do you want your relationships to feel like?

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I ask who holds your address, and what it would be worth to close one.

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Everyone invents five addresses for five relationships.

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The 1990s epiphany, the word, and one step you can take today.

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