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Charles Williamson

Positive Sum Productions

Once - In Concert

I'm excited to share that Positive Sum Productions, in partnership with Lambert Jackson, are bringing Once back to the West End for one night only. More information and a link to book tickets here.

Stable Diffusion

Experimenting with Stable Diffusion

Attempting to find out how to consistently improve the quality of the images I'm able to generate using Stable Diffusion.

Artificial Intelligence

How to deploy Stable Diffusion to the cloud

Stable Diffusion is a machine learning, text-to-image model developed by StabilityAI, which has recently been made freely available. It can be used to create images from prompts, such as the images found here: Stable Diffusion: Prompt Examples and ExperimentsI tried similar prompts in Stable Diffusion as I had tried in

Software Engineering

Deciding on a tech stack for my new product

In the past few weeks, I've begun building a new product. I'll share more about it in the coming months, but for now I thought it would perhaps be interesting to others to share the stack that I'm currently building with - I've always found it interesting to read what

Athletes vs. Artists

I came across this image the other day. I think it applies well to the founder journey too - many people focus too much of their attention on what the competition is doing, when in reality I've found it's much more effective to focus on how you can best serve

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What I'm working on - September 2022

It's been a while since I last wrote here - to kick off a new writing habit, I thought I'd share what I've been working on for the past few months.

The benefits of laziness

Laziness isn't always bad - it's time for a more specific definition of what we mean.

How I research any topic

Here are some principles that I try to stick to when learning a completely new and unfamiliar topic

Blank Canvases

Towards the end of last year, Stairway was acquired (I wrote more about it here). It was the first time I've had a full-time job, and it's the longest professional role that I've held in my life, having dropped out of university just before.

Lessons learned running Stairway

Towards the end of last year, Stairway, the company that I'd been building for the past 3 years, was acquired. Acquisitions can go either way; either they're the exit that a founder has been working towards for years, or they're the best case for a disappointing outcome; this was the

Feedback Loops for Founders

Feedback loops are everywhere. Thinking carefully about them can be valuable, as a startup founder.

Opportunity Cost

Opportunity Cost

I recently had a conversation where someone suggested that the defining trait of all founders is an acute awareness of opportunity cost

Dropping out

A few years ago, I dropped out to found Stairway. Since then, I've been asked by many considering the same thing about how I thought about this decision at the time, and why I still believe it is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Product Strategy

Product Management Resources

I've curated what I have found to be the most valuable content created by others, on the topic of Product Management.

Internships

People don't spend enough time early in their career considering what excites them. This is the time where you should be trying lots of things, and learning what interests you, and what doesn't. You only need to find one thing that really excites you.