on reflecting, zooming out, and smiling

Zayn Patel
8 min readAug 14, 2021

summer seems to be a time of high velocity, accelerating speed and direction faster than other points of the year. the unique juxtaposition between summer and the 9 months that sandwich this middle of the year time is my focus on priorities symmetrically increases with the items I attempt to take on. time is available in the summer it’s a commodity that in the school/work year we have to fight for.

today, as I was thinking about transitioning to the fall, I turned reflective. the greater connection to this emotion was the hustle that my life had consisted of for…

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Zayn Patel

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