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What is your process?

A little muse on the similarities between running and writing. I do both of those things!

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Mar 03, 2025
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Last week on Running Sucks

My first interview of 2025 was with Jaryd Adair, the founder of one of Indonesia’s many, many run clubs, and I found his approach to both running and to community delightfully refreshing.

In a world where community seems to be created more often to extract money from rather than to add joy and support to the people, Flowerboy is a shining beacon of goodness. More of this.

Lifting the heart of Bali’s run club culture with coffee and community

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About your creative process

While reading one of the magazines in my stack of unread physical subscriptions last week, I came across Pharrell Williams’ wicked breakdown of his process as Louis Vuitton’s creative director:

“System, strategy, and structure.”

I’ve written before about how I find running and writing have so much in common. Both are indebted to the process, rather than the result. Having a whim of inspiration might be the spark to signing up for a race…

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