Today was an okay day. I finished my ICS3U CCA, did some of my photography CCA, and did some math review. Tomorrow I have a math rewrite for exponentials. I feel like I’m sort of being crushed by work because I had a french and photography CCA both due yesterday that I did not do, so I’m sort of screwed, there are three days left before exams “start” (my first exam is next monday though) so I must work. {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}. {{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}}. I also read some of good sleep, good learning, good life by Piotr Wozniak. I only read the summary and the part about the clock and the hourglass but basically:

• Listen to your body clock,
• Not sleeping enough will kill your creativity and intellect,
• You need to follow your body clock AND do enough work before you can sleep I think sleep is something I need to improve a lot, but I feel like some of the points he makes are a bit too preachy and feel somewhat unpractical. In particular, his points on how if your kids have to wake up for school you should let them sleep and homeschool them instead seems impractical. It feels a bit like he holds the acquisition of knowledge as a valuable pursuit in and of itself and sleep as an essential part of that pursuit, while I feel a bit that knowledge is a means to the end of solving problems, and sleep is important, but there are other components to solving problems (i.e. collaboration, doing many things) that can encroach on that. I am probably too far in the other direction though. That said, I will be going to sleep now. Have a nice night!

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Claude’s critique of my philo bac response

see here In sum, this was better than previous attempts because I analyzed the terms, kept both of the concepts in play, and had a good case. However, I neglected the most essential word, necessarily. Claude’s problematique:

Equality means treating like cases alike — but justice may require treating relevantly different cases differently. So does equality guarantee justice, or can equal treatment itself be unjust when it ignores relevant differences — and conversely, can justice demand inequality? Is equality a component of justice, or merely one of its possible forms, just only when the equality in question tracks what justice deems relevant