Tough packages

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

David Weinberger had me laughing with his struggle to open the packaging of a bit of kit from Logitech.

Here are things that are easier to open than your packaging:

An unripe fused pistachio shell

A coconut on a nude beach

A new CD

A space-time portal

A delicious vegan fast-food place

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