Climbing Mountains Into the Cloud#
Welcome to my website. I’m Monica, a DevOps Enthusiast currently working as an OR Nurse in the Lisbon District.
Here I share notes and articles about the technical subjects I’m learning and experimenting with, such as Linux, scripting, containers, container orchestration and cloud platforms.
Because I’m very interested in productivity and efficiency, you will also find posts about note-taking, learning strategies, and focused work.
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Most Recent Posts#
Self-directed learning requires a good dose of motivation to begin with.
But motivation alone won鈥檛 keep you there, because there are always other interesting things to do, many distractions to avoid, and less favorable circumstances to overcome.
I鈥檝e found a few strategies to remain focused in my independent studies, and I鈥檝e been using them for the past two and a half months: scheduling and tracking learning time.
In this article, I鈥檒l show you how I鈥檓 using them to improve my productivity and focus, despite having a variable work schedule at the moment.
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Imagine you discover this beautiful mountain: the tallest of all around, it鈥檚 summit鈥檚 bare during the summer, and covered in snow during winter time.
Simultaneously beautiful and frightening, would you like to climb it? I would, for sure. The view from up there must be breathtaking!
Choosing My Mountains Last month, I spent every early morning for a week walking and hiking back in nature鈥檚 grounds, soaking in the sound of birds waking up for the new day, enjoying the smell of wet grass, and stopping to appreciate the view when the sun finally shone its light.
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Every time I鈥檇 open my email app, I would feel a pinch of despair. With over 3000 messages, I felt discouraged about how I could solve this. Processing a few messages at a time wasn鈥檛 working.
Inspired by Mischa van den Burg鈥檚 video The Importance of Digital Housekeeping, at the end of July I decided to challenge myself and clean my email inbox in one sitting.
Problems I had three major problems caused by a poorly managed email system:
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I always had an interest in finding out how things worked to really understand them. So, when I decided to start this learning journey it didn鈥檛 make sense for me to begin at the software layer: I sought to learn about how computers are built, their different components and their functions.
After a while, I felt the need to see and hold these parts in my hands, because learning the theory is important, but putting that knowledge into practice consolidates what you鈥檝e learned.
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