About Connect

Connect is a publication about how considered work actually gets made — the decisions, the false starts, and the parts that never make it into a portfolio. It is written mostly by one person, with a few regulars who file alongside.

Who writes it

Elias Moreau designs books for a living and has done for eleven years. Connect started because the interesting parts of that work — the argument about margins, the tool that was replaced too early, the week measured wrong — had nowhere to go. A portfolio shows the result. This shows the reasoning, including where it was wrong.

Six other writers file here regularly: a studio owner, someone who keeps the reading lists honest, an interviewer, and others. Everyone writes under their own name, and nobody is obliged to agree with anyone else.

A post earns its place if someone could reasonably disagree with it. If nobody could, it is a press release.

What gets covered

Seven threads, each with its own colour, so after a few visits you know where you are before reading a word.

• Craft — how things get made, unmade and made again. Process notes from people who finish.
• Systems — the invisible scaffolding: infrastructure, maintenance, and the economics of keeping things running.
• Field notes — short, dated, unpolished. Experiments in progress and the results nobody expected.
• Reading — what we finished, what we abandoned, and the four we will reread forever.
• Tools — the objects on the desk, reviewed honestly and only after a year of use.
• Interviews — long conversations with people who maintain something difficult.
• News — housekeeping, changes to how this place works, and the occasional apology.

The live count for each thread is below, straight from the archive — so it is never a claim that has gone stale.

What to expect

A couple of posts a month, sometimes fewer. Each one is a specific account of a specific decision, long enough to be useful and short enough to finish. No sequences, no upsells, and no posts written because it had been a while.

Everything is free to read. Subscribing means it arrives in your inbox the morning it publishes, and that you can reply — members can comment, and the replies thread. Unsubscribe on the first click, any time.