Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,

we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.

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We were talking about industry and productivity today, and I often get asked how the heck I

manage to write and produce a half-hour episode each week, along with getting bonus episodes

done and doing everything else on my plate, like administering a primary election here in Ohio

next week, or getting married next month.

Same as with various creative skills like writing or graphic design, you really have to learn

your own best approach, especially when your work is creativity focused, and just constantly

be trying to figure out where you're getting stuck, wasting time, or need to improve,

and also constantly looking at how other folks manage

their workload for ideas you can borrow or adapt.

If you're looking for some suggestions and ideas for either evaluating your productivity

or improving it, I'd recommend Thomas Frank's course, Real Productivity, How to Build Habits That

Last, Over on Skillshare.

He offers a ton of great suggestions that are pretty universal and you can find plenty

more productivity suggestions or courses on creative work like writing and graphic design

among Skillshare's catalog of thousands of classes for creative and curious folks looking

to improve their skills or learn new ones.

A premium membership is less than $10 a month and gives you access to that course and

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