Gerard Laurain

Marketing executive with a passion for helping early stage SaaS firms innovate, market and transform their business.

[BostonWriter @bostonwriter]

If this sort of thing doesn’t stop you in your tracks and make even the slightest twinge of pride rise in your soul… well… I feel sorry for you.

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

🇺🇸 July 2nd — The U.S.’s Almost Independence Day🇺🇸

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain in 1776 actually occurred on July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.

The resolution declared the United States independent from Great Britain's rule. After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision.

One day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:

“The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

I estimate that more than 9,000 MW of hyperscale data center load is now under contract in Indiana.

That translates to roughly a 69% increase in Indiana's electricity consumption by ~2032 relative to 2025, assuming a 90% load factor. 🤯

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

Mapped: The biggest sources of electricity across U.S. states and Canadian provinces as of 2025. https://t.co/11gfnbQ64D via @visualcap

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

@jakeglmn HYDROGEN

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

Keep grinding.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

@DianeKazer Peptides

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

@CraigBrockie Probiotics

[Quincy Lee @QuincyEdmundLee]

There are 1,400 GW of generation and 890 GW of BESS waiting for interconnection

That's more than the entire capacity of the US

Only 13% of projects that entered the queue since 2000 have been built

The average wait time has doubled — from 2 years to 4

We have a permitting and interconnection problem

[Terry Johnson @terjohnus]

Updated shares from February STEO (for 2025–2027):
• Natural gas: 40% (2025), 40% (2026), 39% (2027)
• Coal: 17% (2025), 16% (2026), 15% (2027)
• Nuclear: 18% (all years)
• Hydropower: 6% (all)
• Wind: 11% (2025–2026), 12% (2027)
• Solar: 7% (2025), 8% (2026), 9% (2027)
• Other: 1% (all)

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

@DENAirport train system is down as of 2:55 pm, no ETA for resolution. Can walk if you’re going to Terminal A, but we’re trapped if going to Terminal B or C.

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

@Matt_Pinner Brutus

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@oelma__ Tower Records

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

ChatGPT’s mobile app hits new milestone of $3B in consumer spending https://t.co/D24esxUkcW via @techcrunch

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

Oalmer Luckey has a special prompt to Jail-break ChatGPT.

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

This chart highlights how global energy supply evolves from 2024 to 2050, showing which sources grow, plateau, or decline. https://t.co/U27SN9UDDH via @visualcap

[Robert Paylor @RobertPaylor5]

Today, after 3,125 days of rehab, I stood up from my couch by myself for the first time! Eight and a half years of work went into this moment, and every second was worth it.

I feel so blessed to have this continued progress, and I’ll never take this ability for granted!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Vic Lombardi @VicLombardi]

Is that good?

[Gerard Laurain @GerardLaurain]

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