Small warning about workman. It has issues with lateral movements and single finger n-grams. “ly” and “ct” being notable examples.

A piece of advice I heard that served me well was to look mostly at post covid designs. A lot of work was done on layout optimization around that time and the results show.

My recommendations in no particular order are:

Colemak-DH if you want to focus on a well supported layout.

Graphite or Engram or one of the hands down layouts are modern well optimized layouts I would consider if I was to learn something today.

Some people like MTGAP but in my book it was designed with too much of an emphasis on minimizing key spacing without a strong enough emphasis on how human hands work.

I personally use engram but it only works for me because I have strong pinkies. If you don’t it’s probably a bad choice.

Engram. It’s a great layout that focuses on pinky in rolls.

It’s a steep layout to learn even compared to thing like Colemak but I find it quite satisfying.

https://engram.dev/

Different customers are dumb in different ways and different customers have different personalities.

If I sent a template email I would probably offend most of my customers. Lol.

Depends on the email. Sometimes it’s needed.

I can spend 10-20 min writing an email that basically says “no your idea is dumb and won’t work” to customers in such a way where by the end of it they agree with me.

It can take a bit of effort but with high stakes communication it’s needed.

If you’re just sending an email to your teacher or whatever it doesn’t really matter.