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Brian Adams

@adamsbj

husband. dad. friend -- Managing Partner: UP.Abundance | Investing in deep tech startups and helping them win by turning NM into a strategic advantage.

Albuquerque, NM Katılım Ocak 2009
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Augustus Doricko@ADoricko·
Mankind has always been at the mercy of the weather. No longer. Rainmaker is the first company in history to routinely, unambiguously, modify the weather. Last quarter, we produced >143MM gallons of unambiguously man-made precipitation. Here’s how we do it 🧵
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Beau Hightower@beauhightowerdn·
Anybody got any good recommendations for AC Unit replacement in Albuquerque? Our upstairs unit just went out, 20 years old.
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@kirbywinfield I can smell the Eastlake Zoo from reading this.
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Nathan Halberstadt 🧊@NatHalberstadt·
When someone messages availabilities in Mountain Time, it’s immediately very good and even powerful signal. (weaker if AZ or NM)
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Viv 🪩@battleangelviv·
That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Brian Adams@adamsbj·
Contender for greatest photo ever taken.
Everyday Astronaut@Erdayastronaut

This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture). BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image. So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!

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Brian Adams@adamsbj·
@aviel Still waiting on that Double Dino wine shipment.
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aviel@aviel·
I am less than 90 minutes from being reunited with my tractor.
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aviel@aviel·
Sick of AI doomerism but also keenly aware of reality? Us too, so we decided to do something about it. AI has forever changed software. It’s easier than ever to ship, but much harder to know what actually needs fixing. And even worse, there is a growing disconnect between folks in non-tech industries dealing with painful, daily headaches that AI can solve now and builders who can create solutions, but don’t know which problems actually matter. That’s the gap we’re closing with Foundations NEXT. It’s a simple pitch: bring the real problem. No deck, no startup BS, just the operational pain you live with. We’ll share it with AI-native builders at Foundations who can poke at it, refine it, and maybe build something useful. Best of all, they’ll build it with you. For free. And if it becomes something bigger, we’ll partner with you. To operators who keep muttering “this shouldn’t be this hard” take a look and drop a problem if it fits @ fndtns.org/next
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Brian Adams@adamsbj·
Purdue Wins! Big 10 Champions! Boiler Up!
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aviel@aviel·
While New Mexico is leaning into the future, we're doing the opposite in Washington. E2SHB 2515, which has a hearing tomorrow, REQUIRES that new or expanding data centers be served *exclusively by clean energy* from newly constructed facilities and would effectively stall all projects currently in development and make future projects impossible to finance. This bill is a disaster for everything from job creation to innovation. Those data centers will just go elsewhere so please don't talk to me about green house gases... it's one planet. Please sign CON @ app.leg.wa.gov/CSI/Testifier/… Do not let our legislature virtue signal us into disaster!
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new mexico state wealth fund is $72B. $5B annual inflows which fully funds obligations to state govt. NM won the lottery with permian basin/shale. “we weren’t a player in the software cycle but we will be a major player in the deeptech/dynamism cycle.” #upfrontsummit

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Brian Adams@adamsbj·
@IsForAt @kirbywinfield I was 13 years in Seattle and now running a Venture Fund in New Mexico funded by the NM State Investment Council. We’re meeting companies from all over the world looking at NM for their industrialization moment. Happy to chat - @aviel is up to speed 🤠 upabundance.com
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Brian Hall@IsForAt·
How do we create a league with them and WA state, which previously was the winner in natural resources (timber, salmon) and now is strong in tech and trying to shoot itself in foot? There's amazing Microsoft precedence for a Washington / New Mexico Alliance. I'm happy to take lead negotiator role.
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new mexico state wealth fund is $72B. $5B annual inflows which fully funds obligations to state govt. NM won the lottery with permian basin/shale. “we weren’t a player in the software cycle but we will be a major player in the deeptech/dynamism cycle.” #upfrontsummit
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aviel@aviel·
Look, I hate to come across as an alarmist but we have finally crossed the chasm and from my vantage point are experiencing a classic "slowly and then all at once" situation. Especially in Seattle. Treat this more as a wakeup call than anything else. Here are the facts. 1. In Seattle there are A LOT less tech jobs than there were even just a few years ago. geekwire.com/2026/tech-boom… 2. Your city, state, AND STARTUPS are NOT coming to the rescue. geekwire.com/2026/washingto… 3. LLMs have irreversibly changed the way that we do just about everything in tech. Even in the past month. If you aren't IN THE WEEDs on a daily basis you have no idea what you are even talking about. When 80% of LLM skeptics on LinkedIn have "Open to Work" with "Software Architect" or some similar inflated title on their bio it's more than just a passing "trend". I talk to a lot of people every week. And I mean A LOT. Over the past few weeks the gravity of financial realities has started to set in. Unless you have S-tier social skills, you aren't going to get that salary again with your current skillset. So no, you can't actually afford your mortgage. Oh, and you also probably needed to realize this 12 months ago because you've already irreversibly dipped into your savings utilizing hope as a strategy. Oh and to add insult to injury, prices of everything are going up at the same time: x.com/stevemur/statu… I do not have advice for you if you're in this spot, you're in deep shit and I'm fighting on too many fronts at this point. But if you aren't there yet, my advice is to reset your expectations. You are not mid or late-career, you are just getting started. If you can stomach that I have some REALLY good news for you. The future looks awesome and you're going to do something great.
aviel@aviel

If you work in tech in 2026, you’re either at the beginning of your career or at the end of it. If you’re acting like you’re anywhere else I’m sorry to tell you but you’re actually at the end. This holds for VCs too.

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