# Amateur Environments

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Reggie James]]
- Full Title: Amateur Environments
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://hipcityreg.substack.com/p/amateur-environments

## Highlights
- The realization that software is able to abstract a typically professional environment, to a more open for participation amateur one.
- What’s brand new is the distribution and ease in which our peers can contextually shift their identity towards the rest of us. I believe this is the meta-tension between generations. Those that grew up in predominantly professional environments vs amateur ones. It manifests itself as “misinformation caused by Twitter/Facebook” or “crypto is a ponzi-scheme” or “streetwear isn’t fashion”.