Neil deGrasse Tyson: How do you use your INTERSTITIAL time?

Check out Neil deGrasse Tyson's Amazon page - how many books has he written?
Where does he find the time?

Read his Wikipedia page.

See his website.

Check out his Twitter.Harvard Business Review - Life's Work: An  Interview

From the HBR article:

How do you balance your TV work with your day job, your academic work, and your family life?

Balance might be overrated. If your life is perfectly balanced—everything going smoothly—is it as dynamic as it could be? When life is out of balance, usually something is changing, and that’s not always a bad thing. It gives you a new perspective. New projects always send things out of balance. I embrace disruptions to circumstances I’ve grown complacent about.

Practically, though, how do you manage your time?

It’s a bit of the squeaky wheel philosophy. Some e-mails don’t get tended to for weeks. I also use all the interstitial time available. While I’m waiting for the subway, I’m doing e-mail. With a little more time, I’m composing book chapters or op-eds. How much of your life can you recover by using those slots? When you stitch them together, it’s a lot.

You have more than 4 million Twitter followers. Why does that medium appeal, and what makes you so successful at it?

I got an account, like other early adopters, back in ’09. I started tweeting what everybody else was: “Crossing the street now.” “A little bit cold today.” Why am I doing this? I’m wasting my time. Then I had an epiphany. I was in the Las Vegas airport a couple of months after I published The Pluto Files, and I did the vain thing that authors typically do: go to the bookstore to see if your book is on display. I said, “Excuse me, ma’am, where’s the science section?” She said, “Oh, we don’t have a science section.” I thought, “Of course—you wouldn’t want any rational thinking going on before you gamble.” And I said to myself, “That’s a tweet.” From then on, I’ve been tweeting random thoughts that come to me because of the lens I carry as a scientist and an educator. You are seeing how I think about the world (I call it my brain droppings), and, if you don’t hang around other scientists, that might be intriguing—to be a little closer to the operations of nature and the universe.

Why do you think so many people find inspiration in him?

See his show STARTALK.
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If interested, I'm on @CNN’s GPS here with @FareedZakaria talking about a "Space Force" [Video: 5m 30s].https://t.co/96gDx6nU7h

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 27, 2018