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Be nice to people. It's the single most important thing.

Music and links from this episode

1. Cylinder Nine by Chris Zabriskie
2. The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch by Chris Zabriskie
3. Sphere by Creo

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1. INTRO
2. I like to give out lots of tips to designers
3. And generally
4. They just apply to being a good human as well
5. Today's episode definitely falls into this category
6. Ever since we started Genius Division
7. The design agency I run with a few other conspirators
8. We've tried to live by one mantra
9. Work hard and be nice to people
10. Yesterday was work hard
11. Today is be nice to people
12. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
13. PLAY MID SONG
14. Manners cost nothing
15. Good manners are your beauty
16. Your mood shouldn't dictate your manners
17. I tried to find quote about being nice too
18. But they were all negative
19. And paranoid
20. Nice guys always finish last
21. Even the nicest people have their limits
22. Quotes like that
23. There's an inherent distrust of nice people
24. Especially in Britain, where nobody can take a compliment
25. People constantly that that if you're being nice, you want something
26. Or there's a reason for being nice
27. Beyond just being nice
28. I absolutely don't believe nice guys finish last at all
29. And you shouldn't either
30. The whole idea of finishing last
31. Suggests there's an idea of success that everybody buys into
32. Which is just not true
33. Being nice is the cornerstone of everything I do
34. I hate it when somebody thinks otherwise of me
35. I hate it when I've hurt somebody or somebody is annoyed at me
36. In an ideal world I'd love everybody to like me
37. And I'm not saying that I'm an egotistical way
38. I mean everybody should just like everybody
39. There's no need for backhanded compliments
40. Or silly games behind people's backs
41. Let's just all be nice
42. And let's get it out of the way now
43. Being nice doesn't mean you're weak
44. Or you're a pushover
45. Or you let others get their own way all the time
46. Despite what Hollywood and TV shoves down all our throats
47. You can politely decline
48. And you don't need an argument to solve a difference of opinion
49. I think in the design world, being nice is especially important
50. The design world is still pretty small
51. And most people know each other
52. It's quite incestuous that way
53. So you never know when you might stumble across somebody again in a different job
54. I don't believe in burning bridges no matter how hard the other side might try to set it on fire
55. Being nice isn't trendy anymore I guess
56. The corporate mentality is to drop things on everybody below you and throw stones at people above you
57. Everybody is a target and somebody to be stepped on
58. But in a meritocracy
59. Where everybody is out to get on the next rung of the ladder
60. It forgets about the people
61. Design is all about people
62. It's about the people you share a studio with
63. It's about your clients you help create amazing work for
64. And it's about your peers and other people who you ask for advice from
65. You have to be nice to all...