Learn Emacs - in yen years

This was posted on digg I think. Learn emacs - in ten years by Edward O'Conner

Ed makes some a few excellent points regarding learning as it pertains
to learning emacs and mastering just about anything. However the best
point that was made and struck a chord with me was ...

"I recommend trying Gnus. The several weeks you waste trying to figure out how to point Gnus at your mail server more than pays for itself by the amount you learn while driving yourself mad." ...

So true. I think I spent about two weeks on and off trying to connect to gmail and never did, but I did learn more about the internals of emacs than I would have configuring anything else.

Excellent observations Ed.