[That's a pretty accurate assessment. In the present - in a crisis, especially, where you do have to make life-or-death decisions in a split second - he's very good. He knows how to take the factors he's given and turn them into the outcome he wants, or at the very least one he can live with. But the long game, seeing through the moment to the consequences, is something of a blind spot.]
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I'm a scientist. I like logical.