Context: most weeks, I go to Gitcoin’s Public Library, a nourishing Wednesday chat where a different host proposes an obsession or idea and the group talks it through. This is a write-up of mine — not a formal talk or proposal as such, but a funny fragment of an idea that’s been circulating around my head. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with TV magicians. I grew up in a very small village in the English countryside in the 1980s and I spent a lot of that decade watching cheesy older men in s...