Was going to say the same thing - presumably your goal is that I will like the blog post and by extension you, and if so I'll be curious what you do, what your area of expertise is, etc.
I can only hope the irony isn't lost on him - maybe Owen (whoever he is) is purposefully giving us an example of how annoying it is to not explain what you do on your blog.
Asymptomatic There must be intelligent life down here
Doesn't tell me very much about who the author is, what he typically writes about.