It's wording that I use on Twitter and similar to convey a sort of nuanced problem: I do a bunch of things professionally. Some subset of those things are work

It's wording that I use on Twitter and similar to convey a sort of nuanced problem: I do a bunch of things professionally. Some subset of those things are work that is traditionally done in industry, and which industry has very simple scripts for, and which would be adequately explained by "$TITLE at Stripe" if I had anything like a legible title. But I'm also in that vague sphere that is often called "public intellectuals" despite not being in a line of work that traditionally contributes public intellectuals. I don't work for a newspaper, though my writing has run in newspapers. I am not a tenured professor, but some tenured professors seem to think I occasionally understand and explain things worth understanding and explaining. This is further complicated by "That public intellectual thing is something that is expected of me but in the way that a university expects a professor to conduct scholarship without endorsing all conclusions of it, not like a company expects publicly visible employees to stay relentlessly on-message." And by the fact that everyone expects me to, at some point in the future, continue doing much the same thing while not sitting in the same seat I'm currently sitting in. That is what I mean by "works for the Internet." Which feels sort of self indulgent, and a bit long, to need to shove into every time I stamp out my disclaimer, so it is here rather than every time I need to stamp out my disclaimer.