Dave, I think your snowball effect is working so damn right at least in case of your own amazing YouTube channel. At the time of writing this very much needed by me article you only had 2500 subscribers, but you now have almost 33ks, almost 15 times that time, and this is still just the start!
It's very inspiring how you put your faith in words when you wrote this and now it's become true. Of course your channel deserves even more. Your tutorials are life saver and you have really great talent in explaining things. I think if you explain to me about gold, I'll become a pro-gold-miner 😉🤣!
I suggest you create tutorials on other fields (I mean other than programming, things that matter in real-world software industry, things a beginner-intermediate software engineer might not know) as well in the future.
Thanks again for this article, wish you bliss and success for both your daughter in her journey, and you yourself in your PhD and in your relationship with the gatekeepers.