I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?

Like many nerds before me, I spent a goodly portion of my life searching for the perfect computing system. I wanted a single tool that would let me write prose or programs, that could search every email, tweet, or document in a few keystrokes, and that would work across all my devices. Augment, to achieve the enlightenment of a properly orchestrated personal computer. Where the software industry offered notifications, little clicks and dings, messages jumping up and down on my screen like a dog begging for a treat, I wanted calm textuality. The purpose of configuration is to make a thing work with some other thing--to make the to-do list work with the email client, say, or the calendar work with the other calendar.