This post is part of our Non Sequitur Fridays series, which will feature a different Wistia team member's take on a non-Wistia-related topic each week. It's like our "employee of the month" but less "of the month"-y. Alyce Currier is Content Strategist at Wistia. Last time, she wrote about DJing.

In about two weeks, I'll be embarking on my Fourth of July vacation.

But unlike many vacations, I wouldn't easily describe this vacation as fun. I guess there's some stress involved with any trip you take; you've got to figure out lodging and transportation, craft some sort of itinerary, and coordinate with whoever you're traveling with.

I wouldn't be going on the trip if there was no element of fun at all, and without a doubt, the trip will have its high points. But Firefly isn't really about fun.

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This post is part of our Non Sequitur Fridays series, which will feature a different Wistia team member's take on a non-Wistia-related topic each week. It's like our "employee of the month" but less "of the month"-y. Jeff Vincent is Director of Customer Happiness at Wistia. Last time, he wrote about procrastination.

This might be one of the more non-sequitur-y of our non-sequiturs. I don’t have a history degree (history was one of the subjects I didn’t like in school) but I’ve developed a serious addiction to presidential biographies.

My favorites so far are JFK and Andrew Jackson. While JFK’s presidential tenure is the more interesting of the two (missile crises, celebrities, and Russians, etc.) Jackson’s pre-presidential life is just insane. I’ve got three stories that will convince you Andrew Jackson was one of the most badass humans to ever walk this planet.

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