Airbnb CEO'S hack for success is keeping a daily journal

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky spoke to Fortune about his daily routine in 2024.

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00:00So I keep like a daily journal and a digital note app like Apple Notes.

00:04Basically like every day I write notes to myself.

00:06They're not complete sentences of prose, they're more like bullet points.

00:09And it's anything that comes in my mind, idea, anything.

00:12At the end of every week I'll go through all my old notes and I'll highlight

00:16or bold the notes I like.

00:18Those notes get consolidated into a notebook of ideas.

00:21Those notebooks of ideas, then I have to take action on them if I think they're really good.

00:26Then I create a giant to-do list.

00:28And then I assign that work to people, say I'll call them and knock down the list.

00:32Like hey we should do this, we should do this, we should do this.

00:34And I'll knock it off the list.

00:36And then every year I basically write all the major things I accomplish.

00:40So I'll write ahead of time all the things I think I want to accomplish.

00:42It's a running list of 30, 40, 50 things.

00:44Kind of tactical-ish.

00:46At the end of the year I look and I compare lists year over year.

00:48So I'm pretty systematic.

00:50I take a lot of notes and I organize those notes.