The Quiet Quotient

Tomorrow is Too Late Take Action Today With Content Strategy

The biggest mistake brands, creators, and businesses make? Thinking they have time. You don’t. The content landscape moves at breakneck speed, what worked last month is stale today. If you’re still waiting for the perfect moment to adjust your content strategy, you’re already losing.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

Curation, Creation, and the Comeback of Craft

Almost overnight, the craft of writing vanished. Poof. One minute you’re sweating over the perfect sentence, the next, some AI cranks out a thousand words while you’re still trying to remember if it’s "affect" or "effect." Tech didn’t  help writers, it replaced them, or tried to. This wasn’t evolution. It was a hostile takeover.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

Comma, Pause, Breathe

A slow take on punctuation, rhythm, and the music of a good sentence.
The comma is more powerful than you think.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/
 

AI Didn’t Kill Writing. Mediocrity Did.

The bots didn’t ask us to churn out SEO Franken-content stitched together with clichés and keyword stuffing. We did that. We turned writing into a factory line of so-so. Now we’re mad that machines are better at being average? Please.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

Writing Won’t Make You Rich, But It Might Make You Powerful.

Writing as a profession is tough. It's crowded, underpaid, and increasingly commoditized. The top 1% of writers, those who’ve built platforms, brands, or niche expertise, can do well. But for most? It’s a grind with little financial upside.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

The Ugly Truth About Writing And Why You Should Still Do It

Writing is a brutal, thankless grind. It’s also one of the most powerful things you can do. Both are true. You’re not Hunter S. Thompson, I’m not Hunter S. Thompson, and honestly, even Thompson had days where he probably stared at the page thinking, What am I doing? (Granted, he likely solved that with whiskey and cigarettes, but, that’s beside the point.)Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

From Good to Great - Writing That Connects by Being Human

Most writing is good. Competent. Articulate. Even polished. The problem is, good writing is everywhere, and that makes it invisible. The internet is drowning in content, the ability to string words together isn’t enough. If you want your writing to break through, it has to do something good writing often doesn’t, feel like a person wrote it.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

Writing Lines In The Sand

When I was younger, I used to draw lines in the margins of books. Sometimes literally—highlighting a sentence, scribbling a star, underlining a phrase that sounded like truth. I thought if I marked it, I could return to it later and feel exactly the same. Like pressing a leaf into a book to preserve the moment it fell.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

Not Writing Feels Worse Than Writing Badly

Not Writing Feels Worse Than Writing BadlySome days, writing feels like pulling teeth from a cloud.The ideas are there, sort of.The motivation? Fleeting.The coffee? Cold.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/

Imposter Syndrome Is My Co-Writer

Ever feel like you're faking it, while writing about something real? That’s imposter syndrome. It’s the unwelcome co-author who pulls up a chair, drinks your coffee, and whispers, “Who do you think you are?” in your ear. Every single day.Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/