History and Effective Use of Vim
After years of a love/hate relationship with Vim (I love what it does, but have configuring it), I had an epiphany: by sticking with the defaults, whether they are my preferred choices or not, I can instantly understand how to use Vim in any environment.  Once you get used to biting the bullet and hitting escape instead of jj, or ctrl+c, it just works, everywhere.If you abandon the urge to pimp out your Vim with a billion plugins, and just use it raw, it's a kind of editor Nirvana.  Let go of your desires and live without want :)Of course, that's just me.  I understand why someone would want to turn Vim into their personalized powerhouse editor with IDE powers, with their .vimrc a 'git pull' away.But I've learned to live with the humble defaults, and it's made life easy.