Climbing Mountains Into the Clouds#
Welcome to my website. I’m Monica, an Operating Room Nurse based in the Lisbon District, pivoting into DevOps.
Here I share notes and articles to document my learning process and the technical subjects I’m studying, through hands-on experimentation.
I’m currently focused on Linux system administration, to then progress towards automation, containers and orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.
I also write about productivity and efficiency: note-taking, learning strategies, and deep work practices that support dedicated learning.
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Recent Posts#
Every time I’d 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’t working.
Inspired by Mischa van den Burg’s 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’t 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’ve learned.
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