Thinking in Public
AI can help you create your dream. This is mine. At 60, my daughter will be 20 years old and I would like to move to the beach and build a place. It could be a retreat center, a hotel, maybe a restaurant, and host people. Build a home and host people.
Is this a real dream? Yes. Is it going to happen? Who knows? What matters is the fuel, what fuels you. This fuels me and gets me excited, so I create the outline for it using Nano Banana and ChatGPT imaging. Why not? It becomes my desktop background. If next week I change my mind, I change it.
The building as it exists on paper, floor by floor:
"Nano Banana" is the nickname for Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, announced on August 26, 2025. It generates and edits images from plain language and keeps a character consistent across images. Describe your building floor by floor, then change it by asking.
The psychologist Gabriele Oettingen found that people who only fantasize about the good outcome often do worse. In her studies, women in a weight-loss program who fantasized positively lost fewer pounds, and students who imagined good grades performed worse. Her method is called WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan.
So draw the building, then write the one thing most likely to stop you, and an if-then plan: if that obstacle shows up, then I do this one small thing. Put the plan next to the picture.
I know that I am the average of the 5 people I surround myself with (more on that here), and I'm also the product of my environment. So create your environment to match your goals.