A MAGICIAN'S BLOG 

When people hear there's a magician at their company party, they picture the tricks. Cards, coins, something vanishing. But the tricks are honestly the smallest part of the job. The real work is knowing which group to walk up to, knowing which group to leave alone, and knowing how to join a conversation that was going fine before you got there. That's what clients are actually paying for, and it's the part nobody sees. So here's what a Silicon Valley magician is really doing

A volunteer’s stunned reaction during Mind & Magic in the Carriage House at the Winchester Mystery House In the room, a woman insists she has been making every choice freely. Her own decisions, her own free will, fully in control. Then I show her that every one of those choices was quietly influenced before she ever made them. The gasps come first. Then the nervous laughter, because nobody quite knows how to say out loud what they just felt. It is one of those moments you hav