On Becoming Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears

My 20s sucked. I was still serving in the military for part of it, so there’s that. But I was also working frantically, the living embodiment of what would, in the Obama years, come to be called (and later mocked as) “hustle culture.”

It was a 24/7 lifestyle, and it made me pretty disconnected from the real world during that decade. I didn’t keep up wit…