Hi Peter, I am wondering what's the best way to move from O1 to Green Card? I have my own startup which has sponsored by O-1 visa but need to get a green card to stay in the Bay Area long term. I am a Canadian Citizen if that helps.

For founders, the two options are EB2 national interest waiver and EB1A extraordinary ability and which path to choose will require an analysis of your background and the company. EB1A is much faster but the bar is much higher although many founders who've created "successful" companies qualify.

Thank you, I wasn't familiar with EB2. I did exit my last company in 2021 to a Fortune 500 -- if that counts as a "successful"

Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Extensive experience in building SaaS products. I like to think of myself as language agnostic. Most of my career has been building apps in JavaScript (ReactJS, VueJS), NodeJS (Next.JS, Express), PHP (Laravel) and Ruby (Rails). I have been a founder of various SaaS products and can go from zero to one on an idea. Résumé/CV: n/a Email: obaidott@gmail.com

Thanks, this is interesting.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think I am just too comfortable in my OSX -- everything (kinda) works -- environment.

Totally not worth it. You've got enough Unix there. Right now I'm considering refreshing my generic laptop, but it's for running Linux, not Windows.

oh this gives me ideas to leverage my iPad Pro for dev work.. thanks for sharing the experience. I will look into it as well.

TLDR: your intuition is irrelevant / incorrect.

I ran and exited a startup with a young family. My daughter was 4 yrs old when I sold my company and I started it a year before my daughter was born.

My strategy was to divide my work day as best as possible:

Priorities: 1. Time with wife and kid 2. Customer calls 3. Everything else

I started to wake up early to have an hour to get myself organized. I would then block 6-9am for breakfast with family. 9am-3pm (6 hours) of customer calls/coding etc. 3pm-10pm totally available for family and I would only skip for essential calls (i.e. the hell is about to break lose and I think I had one day every month like that lol). 6pm-7pm was bed time for my daughter that I was responsible for and I am still responsible for it till today. 7pm - 10pm was time with wife, completely available for her for anything she wants. 10pm-2am work on my startup again. This was the most productive time for me as everyone was sleeping and my customers didn't expect me to reply back to them either.

It wasn't easy. Could not have done this without my wife who decided to stay at home with kid to help with everything.

I ended up selling the company about a year ago and we made a decent return back that ensured that we are mortgage free, having enough saved for my daughter and now I am actually getting my proper night sleep.

Itching to start something new though..

How did you manage to keep a functioning brain with a kid and 4 hours of sleep a night? Were you able to sustain this long term or was this more of how the worst of it was? Were those 6 hours completely uninterrupted (and eating at desk)?

I'm trying something similar (prioritize family) and the scheduling aspect has been really brutal.

I did take break in those hours. Honestly it was tough to survive on 4 hours of sleep during weekdays. I usually slept in a bit on Sundays.

I would also recommend not to do it this way. It was brutal.

It's tough but feels worth it - I never feel like I've missed out on anything with my daughter since I'm always around. I think if I can just structure my day better it'll all work out a lot better, just haven't figured out how yet!

Haven’t heard anything yet. Let’s hope they didn’t forget. :)

Yup, still nothing...

I should’ve mentioned I am looking for events in Bay Area.

Happy to meet up with locals who are interested in this space.

Yo! Tried to reply to your post about a visa (thread locked now). I'm a Canadian, founder, been through the process multiple times, and am helping people with visas. @loganullyott on twitter, loganullyott @gml dot com

I help run a weekly AI meetup at NoiseBridge. You can come check us out Wednesdays at 8 or join our Discord: https://discord.gg/cBpbz9VedY .

It's a mix of things at different levels. Some is high level "here's LangChain or Automatic1111", some is more in-depth paper reads. I covered BLIP2 recently, someone else did PaLM-E two weeks ago, I'm gonna touch on SAM this week.

Just follow the accounts of the tools and authors you mentioned on Twitter. LangChainAI, hwchase17, huggingface, replit, etc. It seems like there is a meetup in SF every few days lately. There was just a langchain meetup in the Presidio area and a big AI event at the Exploratorium.

Honestly, this came to my mind as well. I don't want to lie for many reason but simply I just hate keeping track of lies. Something I regret from my younger years in the college.

Is there a reason why this is a bad long term idea? I mean I am giving them fair 2 week notice, offering to help with knowledge transfer and certainly not trying to negotiate more money or anything from them.

People are more desirable when they are already taken.