Maybe because the guy's also a former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
The article was hardly a wind energy puff piece (no pun intended).
Ctrl-a a gets you to beginning of line.
My problem is that I'm so used to that combo that on the rare occasions that I'm not in a screen/tmux session, I keep putting "a"s at the start of the line.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492506/ is a great documentary on the NYT crossword puzzle editor and crossword nuts in general.
As a remote developer I find doing cryptic crosswords one of the few things that helps me switch off entirely from work.