About the Author
I’m Elizaveta Friesem, a scholar and nonfiction writer. My academic training is interdisciplinary, which allows me to draw on a wide range of ideas across the social sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities. I also sometimes borrow concepts from the natural sciences—such as entropy, chaos theory, astrophysics, or quantum mechanics—when they help illuminate patterns in human life. My training includes two doctoral degrees: a Candidate of Sciences degree from Russia and a PhD from the United States. Despite my background, I now work independently, outside the academic establishment. I chose this path to have full creative and intellectual freedom in both content and form.
My life and research are inseparable. I treat every situation as a potential source of knowledge. Everyday experiences—relationships, parenting, dealing with bureaucracy, managing emotions, witnessing conflict—become opportunities for reflection. Every text—academic, artistic, or popular—can provide inspiration. Thinking about power and meaning helps me navigate my life with greater patience, empathy, and awareness. Over time, this practice has become both a way of understanding the world and a form of personal growth.
Writing is an essential part of this process. I rarely begin with a fixed plan—ideas emerge as I write, revise, and make connections. Increasingly, I write in collaboration with AI, which helps me refine expression, clarify structure, and make my writing more accessible. But the insights and direction remain my own. I treat AI as a tool that allows me to think more deeply and communicate more clearly.
Ultimately, my creative process is a way of living as much as it is a way of writing. My research accompanies me through daily life, shaping how I see the world and how I respond to it. In that sense, it is both my work and my practice—an ongoing effort to understand, to stay aware, and to act with compassion and clarity.
To see more of my work and find out more about me, please visit my personal website. If you’d like updates, you can subscribe to my newsletter there.
Finally, a note about images: the fractal featured on each page of this website is by Frank Cone. Other images are either credited to their authors or are photographs I took myself.
My life and research are inseparable. I treat every situation as a potential source of knowledge. Everyday experiences—relationships, parenting, dealing with bureaucracy, managing emotions, witnessing conflict—become opportunities for reflection. Every text—academic, artistic, or popular—can provide inspiration. Thinking about power and meaning helps me navigate my life with greater patience, empathy, and awareness. Over time, this practice has become both a way of understanding the world and a form of personal growth.
Writing is an essential part of this process. I rarely begin with a fixed plan—ideas emerge as I write, revise, and make connections. Increasingly, I write in collaboration with AI, which helps me refine expression, clarify structure, and make my writing more accessible. But the insights and direction remain my own. I treat AI as a tool that allows me to think more deeply and communicate more clearly.
Ultimately, my creative process is a way of living as much as it is a way of writing. My research accompanies me through daily life, shaping how I see the world and how I respond to it. In that sense, it is both my work and my practice—an ongoing effort to understand, to stay aware, and to act with compassion and clarity.
To see more of my work and find out more about me, please visit my personal website. If you’d like updates, you can subscribe to my newsletter there.
Finally, a note about images: the fractal featured on each page of this website is by Frank Cone. Other images are either credited to their authors or are photographs I took myself.
