Monday, July 21, 2025

Cardboard Flaps and Beyond

What if, instead of working in the electrical industry, I was destined to be a structural packaging designer—you know, one of those heroic figures who craft cardboard into a series of flaps that fold together into shipping boxes?

What if I had an innate gift for flaps?

Maybe IKEA would have discovered my genius and hired me to design the perfect box for shipping a bookshelf with 302 parts and a pictograph instruction sheet. Maybe I’d rise through the ranks—promoted to Senior Vice President of Hardware Omission in the Shipping Department.

I’d be the one who decides whether to leave out a critical long screw or a random, odd-sized bolt required to complete Step 18.

Imagine my legacy now.

—Mitchell Hegman

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