About Arsen Saidov.

01 / The work

A name, a library, an open question.

My name is Arsen Saidov. My family calls me Arsik. I bring together personal writing, imagined worlds and questions about identity, love, knowledge, civilization and artificial intelligence in the Living Library.

The Formula gives those different paths a recurring sequence to return to. Across books, art, music, research and interactive experiments, the work is still developing.

02 / The approach

Make the kind of work clear.

Books and creative frameworks are presented as authored work. Journal essays respond to attributed reporting and point readers toward the source. Research pages distinguish a proposal or hypothesis from a tested result.

That separation matters: a compelling idea can be worth exploring while still needing evidence, revision or a better-defined method.

03 / The invitation

Follow a thread. Check where it leads.

The library is meant to be explored in more than one order. Start with a book, follow a character sequence, read an essay, or test a question in the research archive.

05 / Family lineage

The family rods I carry.

I use rod to mean a family line or ancestral branch, as the term is used in my family history. What I know has been passed down by relatives and family accounts.

My mother's side. My maternal lineage includes an Ottoman Kazakschy rod. Family accounts say that members served Tsar Nicholas II in Russia. This side of my family also includes Persian ancestry.

My father's side. My paternal lineage is Jewish-Polish, with a family connection to the Polish szlachta, and also includes Persian (Iranian) ancestry.

I was born in Soviet Russia, within the Soviet Union.

These links offer historical background on the names and regions in my family story; they do not independently verify my specific genealogy.

• Kazakhs and Cossacks — related-looking terms worth distinguishing when researching “Kazakschy.”
• Ottoman Empire — historical background.
• Russian Empire and Nicholas II.
• History of the Jews in Poland and szlachta.
• Persian people and the Soviet Union.

06 / About me

Many paths, one life in motion.

I am an author, researcher, investigator, entrepreneur, web designer, karate champion, martial artist, developer and innovator. My work also spans construction, family business and interior renovation.

Education: I attended Maimonide, a Jewish secondary school in Montreal, but did not complete my studies there. I later finished high school elsewhere and attended Vanier College.

Home and Montreal: I live in Ottawa and travel back and forth to Montreal to visit. Montreal is my favorite city; it is where my family moved after coming from Europe to Canada.

Music: I love epic music, especially instrumental epic music, film soundtracks, and anime soundtracks—powerful, high-calibre compositions with a cinematic feel.

Favorite color: Red.

Family business: I love being part of my family's construction business in Ottawa.

Languages: Russian is my mother tongue. I also speak English and French, can read Hebrew, and understand some German, which I used to speak.

Personal details: I am 37, was born in late September, and am currently single.

I am the third-born child in my family. I have two older sisters, one younger sister, and three younger brothers, so there are seven siblings in total. With my father and mother, there are nine of us, and we live together in Canada.

Not much is needed just be yourself! That is pretty much it ❤︎ :P. Parents and siblings are always with you anyways so where is the harm! Forever and ever that is the truth and nothing else matters. -- Arsen Saidov.

My personal diagram

My custom Eternal Sephirot.

My personal Kabbalistic interpretation of the eternal life of one's heart, body, mind, and soul.

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