Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling · first published 1999

Mentioned 17 time(s) by 13 guest(s).

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 Building a Fiction Empire, Creating $40M+ Kickstarter Campaigns, Unbreakable Habits, The Art of World-Building, and The Science of Magic Systems (#794)
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 Building a Fiction Empire, Creating $40M+ Kickstarter Campaigns, Unbreakable Habits, The Art of World-Building, and The Science of Magic Systems (#794)
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 Building a Fiction Empire, Creating $40M+ Kickstarter Campaigns, Unbreakable Habits, The Art of World-Building, and The Science of Magic Systems (#794)
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.…”
Brandon Sanderson on Building a Fiction Empire, Creating $40M+ Kickstarter Campaigns, Unbreakable Habits, The Art of World-Building, and The Science of Magic Systems (#794)
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)
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
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)
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…”
Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (#542)
Jimmy Wales on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-08-25): mention
“…she was on her third Harry Potter book at the time…”
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, on Wikipedia’s Real Genesis Story, Best Business Decisions, Understanding Financial Markets, Developing a Questioning Mind, and the Value of Optimism (#528)
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…”
Guy Raz on Building ‘How I Built This,’ Managing Depression, and Podcast Ecosystem Predictions (#462)
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)
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 (#220)
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…”
Soman Chainani (#220)
Phil Keoghan on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-05): mention
“…Well, we read all of the Harry Potter books together.…”
Phil Keoghan (#242)
Gretchen Rubin on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-04): mention
“…In fact, Harry Potter, I have to hold back Harry Potter…”
Gretchen Rubin (#290)