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The Story
A walk with Kala. That is where the name came from.
The bench
I had spent weeks turning over names for my app. One May afternoon, I was sitting on a park bench with Kala. She saw some cats and chased after them. I looked at her and said: “you are a free spirit, girl.”
That “free spirit” led to Geist. Geist led to a conversation with Claude about Zeitgeist, and from there to Bookgeist.
Philosophy
For years I stumbled and bounced through existential detours, eventually studying Philosophy with no end in sight. It was a fruitful time of filling notebooks and loose sheets with pretentious, overworked prose.
A few years later, with no end or purpose in sight, I retrained as a programmer by studying Application Development. My final project was, as it happens, a mobile app for tracking books, with the simple essence of the one I remembered.
Then came years without writing, and more than a decade working as a software developer in the big city. And a pandemic along the way. And always an idea lying dormant.
Bookgeist is my first project of my own. More than a product, it is a personal work.
It is the work that speaks for the artist, that shapes them, and the artist is only an enormous mass of ego that may, or may not, itself become art.
Kala
This is Kala.
“She is the spirit that guides me”
Kala is my golden retriever. For months now, she has joined me on walks and watched me from her spot at my feet while I read.
Although a little independent and stubborn when we go out, she is a sweetheart to have around.
She is sitting here beside me as I write this.
La princesita. The princess.