I No I’m Write Podcast — Relaunch Episode
Why Reading the Textbook Matters and Why the Internet Is Ruining STEM Education
Good morning, my children. This is the relaunch, the restart, the rekick of the I No I’m Write podcast.
Over the past year, I experimented with a lot of different formats across YouTube, websites, and social platforms. What consistently resonated most with people was not the flashy stuff. It was the podcasts and the math and physics lessons where I explained how to actually read a textbook.
So I am restructuring this channel to be hyperfocused on that mission: crash-course guidance and structured lesson guides that teach you how to learn properly from your curriculum.
Let me be very clear from the start.
My crash course is not a substitute for your homework or your lecture.
I was a professional tutor for about fifteen years. All day, every day, I worked through math and physics courses from start to finish with students from nearly every university you can imagine. Linear algebra. Differential equations. Calculus sequences. Physics. Engineering math. Over and over again.
Do you know what it’s like to go through the same course ten times in a semester? Because that’s what happens when you tutor long enough. Students bring you their homework and expect you to do it for them. And most professors look down on that for a reason. In many cases, it crosses the line into plagiarism.
I have personally seen students get kicked out of classes and even expelled for using private tutors, using solution manuals, or using online platforms that violated their syllabus.
That surprises people.
They say, “Wait, what? Even Khan Academy?”
Yes. If your syllabus says you are not allowed to use outside internet resources, then using them is cheating. Period.
Why the Rules Exist
You might get upset when you hear this, but the structure exists to prevent you from making mistakes. It is no different than laws in society. Laws exist because people need boundaries, even when they want to do something that feels convenient.
Your school system is structured the way it is for your protection.
Most syllabi clearly state what resources you are allowed to use. Many explicitly say the internet is not permitted. Only the textbook, lecture, office hours, and approved materials are allowed.
Ignoring that is not rebellion.
It is self-sabotage.
Piracy Is Not a Victimless Shortcut
If you are pirating digital content, you are committing a crime. According to U.S. law, using pirating software is illegal. Downloading copyrighted material is illegal. Even downloading a PDF—yes, even from a .edu site—is illegal if it is copyrighted.
You may say, “Yeah, but I’ll never get caught.”
At what point do you stop justifying the crime?
I say this because I was directly harmed by piracy. I spent a decade writing my crash course series and building a structured lesson library, only to discover that people were using ad blockers, pirating my work, and downloading my videos without permission.
Individually, people tell themselves it doesn’t matter.
Collectively, it destroys businesses.
It destroyed mine.
Some of you even told me directly that you pirated my work because you didn’t like how I talk, and you justified it that way. That is not logic. That is entitlement.
I am not getting rich from this work. I was barely scraping by even before piracy started. Digital content is not “free to make.” It often costs more to store and maintain than physical products. I know this because I manufacture books and manage digital libraries myself.
Whiny Baby Syndrome and Why So Many STEM Students Fail
A lot of students are not failing because math is too hard. They are failing because they were trained for nearly twenty years to be children.
Whiny baby syndrome is what happens when things do not instantly go your way and you emotionally regress—complaining, blaming, deflecting—until someone fixes it for you.
Many parents spend eighteen years doing everything for their kids. Paying bills. Making decisions. Defending them no matter what. Then those kids are dropped into college and expected to function independently.
They were never trained for reality.
By the time you reach college, you have nearly twenty years of experience being taken care of. That makes you a professional child. And then people wonder why so many fail.
According to long-standing statistics, about half of students who attempt STEM degrees do not finish. Of the ones who do, only a small fraction end up working in their field. These numbers were better before the internet exploded with shortcut learning.
The pattern is always the same:
“It’s the job market.”
“It’s my professor.”
“The textbook is too hard.”
No.
It’s your habits.
Copycats vs Scientists
When you choose the easiest path—watching videos, memorizing steps, copying solutions—you are not training the mind of a scientist. You are training the mind of a copycat.
I use this analogy often:
A kid watches guitar chords on YouTube and memorizes finger positions. He can play songs, sure. But he cannot read or write sheet music.
Companies are not looking for people who memorized fake solutions from digital chalkboards. They are looking for people who can read, interpret, structure, and produce original work.
Math solutions are English essays. Every symbol is a word. There is grammar. There is structure. There is logic.
When you copy someone else’s solution, you are copying their interpretation, not developing your own. That is plagiarism by definition.
If you pull techniques from chapters you are not allowed to use yet, or from a textbook ordered differently than yours, or from an unaccredited source, you are cheating. This is exactly how students get flagged and removed from courses.
It happens all the time.
What This Channel Is Now About
This channel exists to fix the damage.
Every lesson I do will start with a problem I have not solved before. I will open the textbook and show you how to use the definitions, formulas, and theorems from your curriculum to structure a solution properly—professionally, cleanly, and legally.
Not shortcuts.
Not memorization.
Not internet plagiarism.
My lesson library is not homework replacement. It is a guide on how to learn from the textbook, because almost no one teaches that anymore.
If you are taking science-based calculus, math, physics, engineering, or computer science, this channel is for you.
I am not here to be your cool uncle.
I am here to tell you the truth before it is too late.
If you go too far into a STEM degree without learning how to read and learn from a textbook properly, you will not graduate.
And that starts with turning off the internet.
Final Words
If you want to get caught up the right way, my crash course series exists for that reason. It represents fifteen years of professional tutoring experience and hard lessons learned.
Please do not pirate my work.
Subscribe if you want the rebuild.
Become a member if you can.
I am stepping back from everything else and rebuilding this math and physics library from the ground up, because this is what actually helps people succeed—even if it is uncomfortable to hear.
This is the relaunch.