Emacs Carnival: May I recommend...

This month's carnival topic is "may I recommend...". I'm too new to Emacs to recommend some fancy package or an interesting workflow so I'll reach back to my 20+ years doing software and finding tools. May I recommend....keep it simple. Don't grab 50 new things from some video or blog post that some creator put up. People do that because it looks cool and then they over complicate their systems and abandon them. They layer complexity that looks cool over a system that already is working for them to solve problems they don't have with solutions often produced by people whose job is to get a new piece of content out that will go viral and pay their bills. Many times it doesn't even seem like the creator uses the system at all, it just looked cool and had the proper keywords for what's popular right now. I say, identify a problem you actually have. Spend some time researching options. Try out a few of them to see what works. Then stop messing around with your system and get work done. I…