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Jul 2023
1h 47m

Nikki Mirghafori - How Silence Can Awake...

Mo Gawdat
About this episode
I don’t think you can come across a person with so much diversity as my guest today Nikki Mirghafori, or in Persian it would be Mir - gah - foor- ri. She has grown up in Iran and then immigrated to the US where she studied at Stanford and UCLA and became a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. There is a side of her that is interested in technology and AI, spe ... Show More
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