Everyone says the algorithm is broken.

That it penalizes you. That it keeps you invisible.

But after 6,000+ YouTube videos, I’ve realized something:

The algorithm isn’t the enemy. It’s just a mirror.

It reflects what we click on, what we crave, what we can’t look away from.

Here’s the problem:

If you’re not exceptionally beautiful, funny, shocking, or extreme, the internet ignores you.

“Being normal” doesn’t trend.

But being normal is what lets you survive.

Most people burn out chasing performance.

Trying to out-hustle, out-shock, out-perfect the algorithm.

Me? I chose survival.

I chose to lower the bar, to just show up every day as a professor, a dad, a researcher, and a human being.

Because survival compounds.

It lets you build for decades, while everyone else quits after a few months.

It’s not glamorous. It’s not clickbait.

But maybe — just maybe — showing up as yourself is the most radical strategy left.