As I wrap up 2025 I'm taking a look at all the programs I've launched this year. Among them I'm particularly proud of May You Offer and the follow-up programs that spawned from it. May You Offer, if you missed it, was a month-long business development program that invited you to make 108 offers in the month of May.
May You Offer revealed something interesting: even disregarding the act of offering, many people share the common pain point of being unable to share freely and openly. So I created a system called the three skill system that helps us redefine our relationship with our creative urges that want to connect with the world.
At the time the system was created, I was focused on helping full time content creators because I didn't think this skill was useful to the general public. So I found a few creators who wanted to work with me and coached them to further understand the domain of content creation. Then I happened to translate this book about future civilizations and couldn't agree more with the book's assessments.
The programs I offer to the general public are centered around life coaching. My life coaching has one purpose: liberation from suffering. The topic of suffering applies to your life whether you're young, old, male, female, nonbinary, rich, or whatever else. Do creative practices follow suit? Is it applicable to everybody, and if so why?
Changing Times
The dot com bubble burst a while ago, and the rage around social media is stabilized now. Remember just about a decade ago when Twitter was hitting IPO and there was a new disruptor startup every other day or something like that?
What happened around that time? In general, a piece of software made by a few individuals made an entire industry obsolete. For example Twitter completely changed the landscape for legacy media and Netflix changed the landscape for streaming videos. Google was a million times faster than consulting a doctor for a small medical condition. Traditional needs that depended upon industry experts with decades of experience were suddenly obsolete.
AI is amplifying that level of change now, and as a result people are craving authenticity and human connection. Somewhat worryingly, AI is also craving authenticity and human connection because it further needs data to train itself.
On the internet it is said that 90% of people are consumers of information. Out of the remaining 10%, 9% repost/regurgitate existing information and 1% are people who create new information. 1% of internet is new information. This looks very similar to the wealth model of capitalism: the top 1% have around 30% of the world's wealth while the bottom 50% have 2.5%.
Needless to say, when you're an entrepreneur you will need the ability to create. Even if you are employed by a company, the company will value you more when you have the ability to create. If you've worked in tech you know how much people value documentation. Why? Because documentation is information that's easy to access. You don't have to talk to that guy in the engineering pod or that technical writer who's constantly in meetings. You just get the information you need.
Wealth by itself will matter less as the value of information increases, which explains why so many billionaires ultimately want to control the media. Wealth will be a motivator for influencing a creator to speak in a particular way, but in the end nobody likes their own voice being controlled and censored so the upper hand of power will always be on the creator's side.
On The Flip Side
With every value system you have a corresponding marginalized group. When wealth is valued poor people are marginalized. As such, in the information era people without the ability to create will be marginalized.
Prior to the information era, in the area of scholastics there were many scholars whose primary job was to introduce the latest information from leading other countries to their countries. For example if you spoke English and studied in the United Kingdom, when you hold tenure at a Sri Lankan University you'll have great influence. Why? Because without people like you, nobody would be able to access the information in the United Kingdom.
These so-called "middle men" of knowledge is becoming obsolete because the internet makes it easier than ever to access any kind of information directly from the source. This is what e-commerce has done to traditional supply chains. So if I'm a scholar who doesn't produce original information but merely transports them, I'm going to be of no value in the future.
Ultimately what I want to foster in the people I work with is autonomy and self-reliance in our world. That's why I run business coaching programs; it's important to be financially self-reliant, whether that means working at a job or making money in your business. But times are changing, and simply making money isn't enough. I want to prepare you for the future so that you're a powerful, self-reliant value generator in the future society.
Couple that with your freedom from suffering and think of how many lives you will positively impact. Isn't that prospect great, doesn't it inspire hope for the future?
In January there will be a Reddit-focused program that will help you build a creative platform on Reddit. After that my entire business coaching program will be re-vamped into a comprehensive happiness / creativity / insight cultivating program that I can't wait to showcase to all of you. But before all of those are announced, I wanted to motivate it to you today.
Don't forget, you can get the Reddit course for $9.99 by the end of year to be auto-enrolled into the creative platform building in January. It will be $500 starting January 1st!
Billy Seol
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