That means, I’m in the process of either writing it, or transferring it from other medium (and improving it along the way).
I placed it here, so I could build a structure and refer to it in my other story, I’ve written already. Stay tuned, I’m updating it ASAP.
I use my Gmail address as the primary address for this online persona of mine.
I use other email addresses too, for other identities. Most of them are not for work, for hobbies.
- E.g. I have a separate gmail account (with its separate YouTube, Gmail and all the things) for a person who likes modern technologies (and only that). His YouTube is polluted with all the flashy gadgets. I visit this account once a month or two, so these things won’t pollute my life too much.
- At home, we have a separate shared YouTube account (hence Gmail) for our TV. So it’s mostly local news there.
- Due to the reasons related to war, all of Ukrainian TV media companies migrated to YouTube and are available there.
- I have separate emails for other work-related things, I have 2 email addresses (for services too) at TOI. I have a separate email at Trueowl, as a member of Trueowl Group. But I don’t use for any personal communication.
That’s a separate discussion: whether one needs to pay for a email service provider. I think that probably one better to, but most people don’t. There’s this argument that you could lose valuable accounts in some services, but the truth is, if you made your analysis, almost no services are actually valuable. Even your bank account is more likely attached to your identity, not email.
At Trueowl Group, we have Google Workspace.
- It’s paid (and very expensive, I’d say) email service for mostly companies, to use Google Products at their domains.
- Those are Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Meet, Drive, and maybe something else.
Honestly, we use mostly nothing these days. At the prime years, when the company was active as a business, we used most of the products, but to us there was no difference with just using separate Gmail accounts (which we tried, just to compare). So probably, it would be wise to migrate to self-hosted solution, at some later point in time.
If we’d engage in this ‘gmail is not safe to have’ conversation, I can just say that I can use trueowl-address for that, and be done with it. Most online-services won’t be broken, and I’d be able to change my emails there.
Here, the question remains. What email account should I use to be contacted? I decided I’d drop gmail, even as I use it for this public communication, and use domain email.
Only because:
- it looks better with the website link being just above, they diffirenciate with one symbol only
- since I’m making a point that I don’t trust some email provider to be there for me, gmail might look ridiculous
- it’s not, because it’s active for two decades already, and I don’t have to pay for it to stay active (as of now)
So all this happens only because I’d like to mention their HEY service, as much as I’d like to mention my bits blog. Both could be just dropped. And I drop them for any other company, obviously.
- For any other job positions, I use a mozmail Firefox relay. I have unlimited number of email addresses there, but I use only one email address for all of my job-hunting adventures. I don’t need to divercify each company, I just might want to cut off all of them as soon as I’d find my company, so they won’t bother me.
- Over these two decades, I developed a pretty sophisticated way of filtering emails, probably I’d like to write a separate story on that, one day later, so to slim down this one, plus add extra thoughts and context in here.