I haven't seen anyone share an author-filtering use case yet, so here's a lightly-edited version of my "git mine" alias:

  log --no-merges --date=short --author="cyranix" --stat

This allows me to skim through my own recent changes.

"--no-merges" is included in just about every log invocation I run; in a continuous integration workflow, I generally don't find merge commit info to be all that informative.

As an additional tip, the "-n <count>" form of limiting the history can be shortened to "-<count>". For example, reviewing the diff of the last two commits can be achieved with "git log -p -2".