Monday, July 14, 2025

The new blog - Why My Blog Is So Ugly and Where My Beautiful Websites Are

The new blog is live! 🎉

You can feast your eyes on it at the link below.

Yes, the blog has that title, and you really can view at the following URL:

Why My Blog Is So Ugly and Where My Beautiful Websites Are

Yes — in case I forgot to say, that’s the actual title. And no, it’s not clickbait. I genuinely needed to address the elephant in the CSS.

Have fun, and try not to judge the fonts too harshly. 😅

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Welcome to Delfikorakle: A Time Capsule of Thoughts

TL;DR

Brief summary --

Has this blog moved?

In a nutshell: yes.

If you are looking for my current writing, please visit my Substack:

http://epistemikamensa.substack.com

Epistemika Mensa is a blog focused on mental wellness, productivity, happiness, decision-making, and related topics. It is especially written with an American audience in mind. More than anything else, it is my way of saying thank you to America, to Americans, and to the Esperanto community for the many lessons, insights, and experiences I have gained through my interactions with them. Let us work to make America great and strong!

In retrospect, I probably should not have used Blogger as my primary platform in the first place. I gradually corrected that mistake by moving first to Facebook and Facebook Groups, and later, in May 2026, to Substack.

So, if you are looking for my actual blog, you are probably better off visiting the Substack instead.

I have written more than twenty books, most of them poetry books. The poetry books were written to break a world record, an attempt I have been notified that I have succeeded in. I plan to dedicate about a day every once in a while (oh, maybe once every five to ten years or so) to make a post on this blog with a brief overview of all the books I have written. You can go here to view a post related to all the books that I have written. [+]

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This Blogger site now functions primarily as:

A digital archive.
A time capsule.
An A.I. laboratory.
A repository of assorted experiments and intellectual rabbit holes.
A place with some stuff that I cannot actually tell you about.

This post here explains it more fully.

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Discussion --

Before you proceed, a brief warning. This blog contains posts on artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, management theory, philosophy, the American experiment, Zoroastrianism, ancient philosophers, Esperanto, yoga, startups, happiness research, and whatever else happened to wander into my field of view on a given week. In other words, it occupies a rather unusual corner of the Internet. But the reason it all looks scattered is because these and other posts, most of them hidden, contain links to GitHub repos, et cetera, which have the actual content.

Some of the material here may be of particular interest to American readers—especially those interested in technology, innovation, intellectual history, entrepreneurship, and the institutions that helped shape what is often called the American experiment. A number of these posts and the hidden posts also explore ideas from around the world and ask what different civilizations can learn from one another.

If you are looking for my current writing, please visit my Substack:

http://epistemikamensa.substack.com

This blog is now primarily:

A digital archive of older posts.
An A.I. laboratory.
A repository of assorted intellectual rabbit holes.
A place where I occasionally post new material.
A place with some stuff that I cannot actually tell you about.

Capisce? There is more to this blog than may meet the eye.

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What Is This Blog About?

This blog and my books contain content on:

Artificial Intelligence
Entrepreneurship
Management Theory
Philosophy
The American Experiment
Ancient Philosophers
Esperanto
Yoga
Startups
Happiness Research
Finance
Organizational Behavior
Strategic Management
Whatever else happened to wander into my field of view on a given week

Some of the material here may be of particular interest to American readers, especially those interested in technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual history, and the institutions that helped shape what is often called the American experiment.

A number of the posts also explore what different civilizations can learn from one another.

If your interests happen to include all three of the following subjects:

Zoroastrianism
Esperanto
Artificial Intelligence

...then congratulations. You may be one of the twelve people on Earth for whom this website was accidentally optimized.

Has This Blog Moved?

Yes.

The best place to follow my current work is now:

http://epistemikamensa.substack.com

Most of my newer writing now appears on Substack, particularly my work on:

Mental Wellness
Productivity
Systems Thinking

It is especially written with an American audience in mind. More than anything else, it is my way of saying thank you to America, to Americans, and to the Esperanto community for the many lessons, insights, and experiences I have gained through my interactions with them. Let us work to make America great and strong!

Delfikorakle survives primarily as:

A time capsule.
An archive.
An A.I. laboratory.
A place for occasional experiments.

In short:

The blog has moved.

The archive remains.

Why Does This Blog Look Like This?

Because I don't spend much time formatting it.

This site doubles as an A.I. laboratory.

Some posts contain unusual formatting, strange HTML, odd experiments, and assorted curiosities because they are being used to test A.I. systems and workflows.

Take everything here with an appropriate grain of silicon.

And yes, I have created beautiful websites.

I keep this one around partly because it is useful and partly because it amuses me.

If somebody trolls me on the Internet, I may even point them here and tell them:

"You might actually find your answer somewhere in this archive."

People sometimes wonder whether I can design beautiful websites.

For the record:

I can.

See:

Oh My Beautiful Websites

[WARNING: Nerdy Humor Ahead.]

About Me

I have been blogging since 2002.

Highlights include:

Zoo Station won the IndieBloggies Award in 2004.
Cofounder of Namaste Bharat Magazine.
Founder associated with Delphic Ventures / Qwykr Technologies.
Long-time participant in various blogging and online communities.

I stumbled into blogging many years ago and never completely left.

Today, A.I. makes it relatively easy to keep the blogging habit alive.

Startup and Incubation Programs

Projects associated with Delphic Ventures / Qwykr Technologies have participated in programs including:

Google For Startups
Microsoft For Startups
IIM Bangalore Incubation Program
IIM Kashipur FIED Incubation Program

Other Projects

Namaste Bharat Magazine is now known as Pravasi Indians Magazine.

Other projects include:

Pravasi Indians Magazine
Various websites and web applications
Slurrp.com

Stay tuned for more details.

A Brief Note on Elon Musk

I occasionally joke about Elon Musk, Twitter/X, and social media.

For the record:

I am not an Elon Musk hater.
I generally admire many of his ventures.
I enjoy making occasional jokes about Internet culture.
The proposed Hitchhiker's and Everyman's Guide to Elon Musk remains unfunded.

Until then, be safe on the Blogosphere.

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Social Media Utility Ratings

U(t, Facebook Messenger): Positive.
U(t, Facebook): Slightly positive for some, negative for most.
U(t, Twitter/X): Negative for most people.
U(t, Facebook Groups): Slightly positive.
U(t, Blogger): Dusty but charming.
U(t, Reddit): Surprisingly useful.

Social media metrics are like entries in a database.

You can download an open-source database and create your own numbers game.

Unless you are a digital influencer, the immediate utility is often less than advertised.

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Who cares how many Likes somebody received ten years ago?

Exactly.

Gives you some perspective on the whole social media circus.

As a FIRE enthusiast, I suspect most people would be better off investing more time in long-term goals and a little less time in social media.

Thanks for stopping by.

And remember:

A tweet a day won't keep the doctor away, but a good laugh just might.

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