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Airbnb CEO'S hack for success is keeping a daily journal
Fortune
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3/21/2025
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky spoke to Fortune about his daily routine in 2024.
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So I keep like a daily journal and a digital note app like Apple Notes.
00:04
Basically like every day I write notes to myself.
00:06
They're not complete sentences of prose, they're more like bullet points.
00:09
And it's anything that comes in my mind, idea, anything.
00:12
At the end of every week I'll go through all my old notes and I'll highlight
00:16
or bold the notes I like.
00:18
Those notes get consolidated into a notebook of ideas.
00:21
Those notebooks of ideas, then I have to take action on them if I think they're really good.
00:26
Then I create a giant to-do list.
00:28
And then I assign that work to people, say I'll call them and knock down the list.
00:32
Like hey we should do this, we should do this, we should do this.
00:34
And I'll knock it off the list.
00:36
And then every year I basically write all the major things I accomplish.
00:40
So I'll write ahead of time all the things I think I want to accomplish.
00:42
It's a running list of 30, 40, 50 things.
00:44
Kind of tactical-ish.
00:46
At the end of the year I look and I compare lists year over year.
00:48
So I'm pretty systematic.
00:50
I take a lot of notes and I organize those notes.
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