Tips on Long Term Emacs Productivity by Xah Lee.
There are seven (7) tips:
- Everything is a Command
- Master Window Splitting
- Master Dired
- Master Buffer Switching
- Remap Most Frequently Used Keys
- Master Find/Replace and Emacs Regex
- Get A Good Keyboard
The post on drawing suggested warmup exercises. Might not be a bad idea for Emacs as well.