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MacStories Weekly: Issue 381 - August 18, 2023

Fresh Starts

John

What if you could start over from scratch? That question is a thread that’s run through my careers. I started out as a bankruptcy lawyer. The whole point of bankruptcy – at least the reorganization flavor of it that I specialized in – is starting over. Maybe a company was monumentally mismanaged or caught a...

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John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.
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