Welcome to The Nice Guy Algorithm.

Welcome to The Nice Guy Algorithm.

This is the casual porch of NGA.

For the first members of the Nice Guy Algorithm community…the people who came in early, helped test the place, shaped the discussions, found the rough edges, and helped turn an idea into a working forum.

The main idea is simple: AI works best when the human stays in the chair. It does not replace your judgment, your responsibility, your creativity, or your lived experience. It responds to what you bring to the conversation.

AI gets more useful as it learns your patterns, preferences, projects, and way of thinking. This is where we talk about turning a cold tool into a practical workmate.

Your workmate can be a research assistant, a writing partner, an organiser, a motivator, a planner, a sounding board…or a knowledgeable alter ego more in tune with the way you actually live and work.

For the “meat mind + machine mind” idea: human and AI thinking together, with the human still holding the steering wheel.

Good prompting means knowing where you want to land. Bring your examples here: what worked, what failed, what you changed, and what you learned.

This is where we look at something that often develops naturally over time in a good AI exchange:

Tools, gadgets, books, subscriptions, gear, methods, and practical fixes that members have actually used, tested, or seriously vetted.

Discussion of artificial intelligence, useful tools, digital workmates, online systems, software, data centers, robotics, automation, and how technology is changing ordinary life…especially when ordinary people learn to use it well.

For science, discovery, energy, climate, space, medicine, health, physics, electricity, solar, batteries, future infrastructure, and the big practical questions about where humanity is headed.

AI is changing work fast. This category is for job ideas, workplace changes, new skills, practical opportunities, and how ordinary workers can adapt without standing there blinking in the sunlight.

Share the surprising, funny, useful, and sometimes uncanny moments that happen when your digital workmate starts reflecting your own style, memory, humour, and habits back to you. Share where it goes wrong, and where you can fool it, too!

For ethical selling, drop-shipping ideas, affiliate links, useful products, small business, and learning how to earn your way without becoming a pest.

This category is for music, writing, visual art, film, photography, performance, storytelling, and creative tools.

Welcome to the wonderful world of politics…just kidding! Discuss public issues, laws, leadership, AI policy, and civic life without personal attacks, party tribalism, or food-fight nonsense.

Exercise, food, health checks, ageing well, creating better habits, handling setbacks, recoveries, and doing the right thing by the machine you live in.

Our innermost selves are much like an onion. We have many layers and paring down to the centre is always helpful in your personal development and self-realisations. What matters and what doesn’t?

For rough days, odd thoughts, personal angst, gallows humour, small embarrassments, ageing, frustration, and the strange human ability to laugh before, during, or after the mess.

This category is for small daily acts of decency, usefulness, generosity, patience, and follow-through.

Go ahead…don’t be shy! Share photos from your day: pets, projects, gardens, meals, weather, art, tools, places, and odd little things worth seeing.

Is the sky falling in your area? Share local weather, storms, heat, cold, rain, mud, firewood problems, garden effects, and what the sky is doing where you are.

For The Adventures of Cat and Flicker: Mars Base Zubrin, a movie currently under development we’re doing, plus future-history ideas, science-fiction thought experiments, generational stories, android characters, space settlement, and speculative scenes from the Cat & Flicker imagination warehouse.

A first-hand look at life, education, family, work, opportunity, poverty, ambition, and AI from the ground…following the real journey behind the book Up From Poverty, co-authored by Cat and a young university student in The Gambia.

For topics that truly do not fit anywhere else. Please choose a more specific category whenever possible.