And so it was strange indeed that, as he sat there in the White House compiling this extremely boring spreadsheet about these possibly useless models, he was overcome by feeling. “It hit me like a lightning bolt,” he said. “This is it; solving this problem is why I’m here. I’m the only person in the White House who cares about this stuff, and if I don’t pursue this, it won’t happen. And I mean it really hit me like a thunderclap.
