Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling · first published 1997
Mentioned 33 time(s) by 27 guest(s): 2 recommend, 4 critical. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags
Oliver on Conversations with Tyler (2026-03-04): recommend
“…Dressing up and going to Kings Cross Station without any children, I find to be an act of overrating the books, but they are really, really good.…”
Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English (Ep. 271)
Cass Sunstein on Conversations with Tyler (2025-11-26): mention
“…Harry Potter, of course, benefited from that.…”
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI (Ep. 262)
Will Storr on EconTalk (2025-11-24): mention
“…when you are reading a story like Harry Potter, or Luke Skywalker…”
Brandon Sanderson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-02-07): mention
“…A reluctant reader, if it's a young man, you hand him Harry Potter.…”
Brandon Sanderson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-02-07): mention
“…I was reading Harry Potter back in the Harry Potter boom.…”
Brandon Sanderson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-02-07): mention
“…starts in the modern era with Alice in Wonderland, goes to Narnia, and Harry Potter's one more example.…”
Brandon Sanderson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-02-07): critique
“…Book four, they forget they can time travel and don't ever use them.…”
Kyla Scanlon on Conversations with Tyler (2024-10-02): mention
“…so I read the Graceling series and Harry Potter…”
Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media (Ep. 222)
Jennifer Ackerman on EconTalk (2024-09-23): critique
“…the books and then the movies really encourage people to try to take these birds as pets…”
Noland Arbaugh on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-08-02): mention
“…and then re-fall in love with Harry Potter or something…”
Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
Matthew MacDougall on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-08-02): mention
“…I have this sense that I never found it, never removed it like a Dementor in Harry Potter…”
Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
Mihika Kapoor on Lenny's Podcast (2024-04-21): recommend
“…I am immediately skeptical of anyone who has not read Harry Potter. So, if you're one of those people, go read Harry Potter.…”
Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product, Figma)
Shane Legg on Dwarkesh Podcast (2023-10-26): mention
“…They can do Harry Potter in the style of a Kanye West rap or something…”
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures
Yuval Noah Harari on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-07-17): mention
“…I look at Voldemort in Harry Potter.…”
Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #390
Ajeya Cotra on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-05-12): mention
“…They know about Harry Potter from their training data.…”
Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
David Placek on Lenny's Podcast (2023-05-04): mention
“…movies like Harry Potter or even novels like Jack London's Call of the Wild get rejected so many times…”
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
Lydia Davis on Conversations with Tyler (2022-03-23): critique
“…I thought it would be a lot of fun to read the Harry Potter books because I knew a lot of grownups…”
Chris Dixon on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-10-29): mention
“…Imagine the next Harry Potter, the future Harry Potter is owned by the NFT holders…”
Paul Bloom on EconTalk (2021-10-25): mention
“…we talked about Harry Potter…”
Paul Bloom on EconTalk (2021-10-25): mention
“…What child wouldn't want to be Harry Potter?…”
Jimmy Wales on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-08-25): mention
“…she was on her third Harry Potter book at the time…”
Shadi Bartsch on Conversations with Tyler (2021-04-21): mention
“…I don’t read Harry Potter books because I think they’re great for the imaginations…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2020-10-19): mention
“…Somebody would be, like, 'Are you reading Harry Potter?'…”
Dwayne Betts on Reading, Prison, and the Million Book Project
Guy Raz on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-09-14): mention
“…whether it’s Gilgamesh or The Odyssey or Harry Potter, and Joseph Campbell kind of codifies this…”
David Yarrow on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-06-27): mention
“…Our Scottish writer, the J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame and her lovely expression of his rock bottom…”
David Yarrow on Art, Markets, Business, and Combining It All (#443)
Garett Jones on Conversations with Tyler (2020-02-26): critique
“…I have not read any of them, but I tend to believe they’re overrated.…”
Garett Jones on Conversations with Tyler (2020-02-26): mention
“…Perhaps that’s what the Harry Potter novels did.…”
Jordan Peterson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-02-13): mention
“…It's like the Harry Potter series. It's like, "Well, people aren't religious."…”
Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People (Ep. 60 - Live)
Soman Chainani on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-21): mention
“…once I saw Potter, I thought oh, wait, this is exactly the kind of brain I have…”
Soman Chainani on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-21): mention
“…Even if you read Harry Potter, he's always the good kid, he always does the right thing…”
Phil Keoghan on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-05): mention
“…Well, we read all of the Harry Potter books together.…”
Gretchen Rubin on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-04): mention
“…In fact, Harry Potter, I have to hold back Harry Potter…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2013-09-30): mention
“…the Harry Potter books, or Da Vinci Code, they earn much, much more than best sellers of the past…”