I Used to be a Privacy Hawk; I Used to Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Steve Russell
The Startup
Published in
5 min readJun 16, 2019

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In my late teens, I worked for the Air Force branch of the National Security Agency and I considered myself pretty darn sophisticated and saw no need to claim a handicap for being an American Indian dropout from flyover country. I had read 1984. I had read Brave New World.

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Steve Russell
The Startup

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)