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Dylan Field: belief

30 Jun 2024 Lenny's Podcast Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design

“I loved it. But my differentiators when I was five, five and a half I think, was that I could read and I could sit still and I was decently cute.”

— Dylan Field

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Speaker
Dylan Field
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
30 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Final question. Not many people know this, but you were a child actor when you were five years old. Do you think you made the right career move? Do you feel like you sometimes regret acting? Yes, definitely. That's my mom. My mom's in the audience and she says yes. No. We've been talking about product. If you're an actor, you're a product in some way. And that's not to disparage actors, actors are awesome. Acting is awesome. I loved it. But my differentiators when I was five, five and a half I think, was that I could read and I could sit still and I was decently cute. And I hit puberty and those things were no longer differentiators. And then it was like, let's do some computer science. So to close, we're going to play a... Oh, applause. We're going to play a clip, something I found on YouTube to close and enjoy. 30 seconds clip.…

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