Complexity Is Optional. Execution Is Not.

Good news and a big disappointment

The first two months of 2026 were intense—honestly, ever since my daughter was born. But I have been away from social media since last year! What!?

We were figuring out life with a baby and a toddler. With two under 2, especially in different phases, it’s a completely different game. It’s not twice as hard. It’s insanity, but fun.

Now things are more stable and predictable and our amazing nannies are helping us stay sane. 😅

Dose of the week

Complexity is optional. Execution is not.

It’s funny how I have always loved building systems and delving really deep into customization and optimization of everything that I use.

When I was younger, I started learning programming, hacking, all that nerdy stuff. As I got older, I continued to learn on how to be a power user on all the apps I loved and used daily - Notion, Databases, WordPress (including HTML and CSS), Adobe Suite, more recently AI agents, playing with all the APIs, and many others that require a lot of time to learn and get decent at. And I won’t lie, it helps me a lot today.

However, the busier I get, notably after baby #2, the simpler I want things to be.

Complexity becomes friction.

So I simplified almost everything and don’t want to come up with all of my solutions anymore. I don’t even change my desktop wallpaper nowadays 😂

I’m testing new website hosts. I’m restructuring the newsletter workflow. I’m removing things that require constant maintenance. I haven’t settled on a final stack yet.

Just one example that might get the Millennials and Gen Z students readers crazy, I moved back from Notion and all its capabilities to Google Drive and Calendar.

If you do have a similar personality, I hope that these realizations can help you:

A lot of anxiety can come from unnecessary architecture and overcomplicated workflows.
If something requires constant tweaking (I’m looking at you, Notion), it’s probably not worth keeping.

And being honest, I believe that’s where Apple wins in so many aspects. Their hardware and software are often far from the best, but my personal life now is almost entirely in the Apple ecosystem (Laptop, Phone, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, etc.), which does really well what it needs to, without too much friction. Whereas my business life is on Google Workspace, for similar reasons.

It’s been working well this way.

About Peter Attia

This one hurts.

Peter Attia was one of my main inspirations when I started studying clinical lipidology and preventive cardiology during residency. I can’t express here how disappointed I am; I don’t want to bring down the mood of this newsletter.

I’ve recommended Peter Attia’s work for years. I own his book Outlive - which is still good, though a little outdated. I’ve shared his podcast multiple times.

But recently, his name appeared repeatedly in the Epstein files (watch this reel to understand more).

He - or his PR team - published a statement on X.

I tried listening to one of his recent podcast episodes on a topic that I had real interest in and just couldn’t finish it.

I will not be recommending his work anymore. The mistakes he made are not the kind of youthful indiscretions you’d forgive in a young adult; he was already in his forties.

Deep down, I still hope that it was all a misunderstanding somehow… But I don’t think so…

Let’s go back to talking about good things…

My first one million views!

One of my recent Instagram videos — about time spent with children — crossed one million views.

And that meant a lot to me—and of course to my editor Tawan Ornelas, who has been doing an outstanding job.

It showed me that people still respond to real things and sentiments, not just to “optimized content”.

So what’s coming right up next:

A celebration short video with a similar theme on how becoming a father changed me.
A YouTube long video on how AI will change medicine. It does not sound that interesting I guess, but it will be!

My open diary

Inertia of mind is a real thing. The more time I spent away from creating content, the more comfortable I felt postponing it. So much so, that I haven’t posted a YouTube long-form video on my personal channel in three years! And that’s the type of content I like the most.

An update on my visa and immigration status: currently my wife and I have a “holding company” called Deolify Health and Research LLC with many branches and divisions mentioned below. This company is now my full-time job and visa sponsor.

Currently these are the things I am working on at the same time, with different types of priority.

Professional, for Deolify Health and Research: Prev Med clinic (Name pending), Prev Med App (Preventr Health), unPRESCRIBED newsletter, Content Creation (Deolify Media), Multiple research projects including meta-analyses and narrative reviews.
Personal: Studying Japanese (it’s been two years now! ありがとう先生!), being a father and a husband, following all that I preach (nutrition, exercise, sleep, etc.), playing piano and guitar, reading books other than The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

So my calendar is definitely filled out to the minute.

I try as much as I can to keep in mind that consistency is key and that not every calendar event will also be perfect to the minute.

Next week we will come back to more medical topics, I promise!