Michael Duoma is an Assistant Research Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University where he is the Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. He is an interdisciplinary historian, influenced by scholars in fields as diverse as economics, folklore, and ethics.

In today’s episode, some of the things we talked about were: how Michael's passion for history evolved, the process of discovering new ideas, what is ethical history and much more!

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Chapters

0:00 - Intro

1:04 - Micheal talks about being the Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics

3:19 - What a Historian is & how to approach the work

14:48 - How to choose what problems to examine?

20:18 - The Faroe Islands

26:10 - The ah-ha moments (eureka effect) & the creativity of a historian

32:11 - If you LOOK for it, you WILL find it!

39:47 - How to break free from a singular point-of-view

42:17 - To be a Specialist or To be a Generalist?

48:39 - Popular History (books)

52:29 - Peter Thiel & Jay fanboying on Tesla & Musk

56:23 - Relationship between Academics & Entrepreneurship

1:03:00 - Importance of co-authoring

1:05:49 - Data being used in Quantitative History

1:09:00 - Relationship between wheat prices & slavery (in 1800s)

1:20:11 - Deciphering between truth & memory

1:23:05 - BIG problem that Michael is trying to solve

1:27:46 - What we can learn from history

1:31:14 - Does ethical history exist & questionable historic marketplaces/choices?

1:47:46 - Living in a wooden cabin in remote West Virginia

2:00:08 - The superpowers of yourself!

About Jay Sikand: He is a podcaster, actor, tech nerd, and lover of life that explores ideas from entertainment, technology, philosophy, politics, health, fitness to whatever else is intriguing. He has conversations with friends and people of strong morals, ambitions, and intelligence within their fields. Anyone who wants to journey through enlightening conversions that contain dangerously good information should tune in!