About David Rollo

Eleven true things and the questions they left me with.

Eleven, because it's my favorite number. Each one is a true story, a lesson it taught me, and the question it left behind. The lessons are mine. The questions are now yours.

The author

David H. Rollo

Author, speaker, and lifelong asker of better questions. I spent a long time being easy to like and hard to actually know. I'm done with that, and this page is where I start.

The notebook

01 / 11

I started in the mailroom at Apple, sorting envelopes for people whose names I'd only seen on memos.

Lesson

The room you start in doesn't decide the room you end in. It decides how you treat the people still sorting mail.

Question

What are you too proud to begin?

The confession

If you've made it this far, you know more about me than most people I've spent years in rooms with. That was the point. None of these were easy to write down, and a few I'd have rather kept.

But a man who builds his life around better questions can't stay the one person he never asks them of. So here it all is. Hello. I'm glad you're here.

In the book, Simon Millar finally asks his question. He's ready. In most of the ways that matter, so am I.