Books
The Chess Memory Palace explains how to use advanced memory techniques to learn chess openings. Available as paperback or ebook – or read the first 3 chapters online.
A Curious Letter from Nebuchadnezzar is a retelling of chapter 4 of the Book of Daniel, from the Bible, in rhyme and pictures. Available as paperback.
Blog
(2024/04) Story Arcs according to Matthew Dicks
(2024/01) Green Man Triptych Sequence in Exeter Cathedral
(2023/12) On Designing Mnemonic Systems – and Why Picture Notation is the Best Mnemonic Code for Chess
(2023/12) Cinematically Showing a Change of Mind
(2023/11) A hospital packing list
(2023/11) Why memorise chess opening theory (with a memory palace)?
(2023/01) Reflections on Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
(2022/10) Flint Artefacts from Gidleigh Common
(2021/10) World War Two Geoguessr Map