circles + triangles of a classroom

Zayn Patel
9 min readAug 11, 2021

Habits are the compound interest of improvement or sabotaging behavior. We dictate how we build these loops.

In a conversation with a founder in the San Francisco education market, she stated that more schools are repping students to create bad habits at scale vs. good habits. Here’s a scenario from a classroom.

Teacher: Students if x is divided by 4 and equals to, what’s the value of x?

Students: Reach over to their calculators and type the equation into their calculator.

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Zayn Patel

Working on space technology and policy, improving government with data science, and launching a cubesat mission.