After closely considering all the incentives this blockchain offers, I would absolutely vote only for myself.
After having staked up the whole month, I would then continue to vote myself, but spread some 10% of my VP over different authors and perhaps some sock puppets.
Every other month, I would start a new challenge - the more privacy invading and humiliating for the contestants, the better.
If a project had minnow or curation in its title and I could get more coins from it, I would support it.
After all, I have been a minnow once.

I would become the average Steemian's new hero and selflessly good whale, like ned or berniesanders.