1. ‘Tis the season

This time of year graduations are happening all around us. One graduation speech that has never left me after all these years is George Saunders’s convocation speech at Syracuse in 2013.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

As I mentioned in the prior newsletter, my daughter is graduating from high school. In fact, her graduation ceremony is this evening. It is wonderful to celebrate all that she’s accomplished. It is exciting to contemplate all that she will do in the future. Saunders provides great advice, not about ambition, but about leaning in to the youness of you.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

And most of all, if we take Saunders’s advice and “err in the direction of kindness,” I think we’ll find that life goes so much better for ourselves and those around us.

—Barry

2. Studio Update

A lot has happened here at Good Enough since our last letter. Particularly, time-sensitively, we are running a coupon promotion for Pika right now to celebrate our launch of background images. If you’ve been holding off on starting a blog, PIKACITIES gives you 15% off your first year of Pika Pro. Or maybe you have a friend who really needs to get blogging? In any case, act now because the coupon expires on June 13th.

Wait, there’s more!

• Jelly has added teammate assignment

• And pre-saved replies to speed up replying to frequently asked questions

• And teammate notifications

• Pika made its headings linkable

• The team also made a bunch of lovely performance improvements to Jelly

Oh, and something else is cooking in Pikaland:

3. Sharing is Caring

You’ve got links, we’ve got links:

• While not a huge fan of either artist, Patrick felt the roof was adequately blown off with this performance

• Another interesting place for us humans to curate the web: url.town

• It appears that none of us actually want to eat this abomination

• Bandcamp added playlists, with the fun wrinkle being that you have to own a track to add it to your playlist

• Cade watched the entire 4th Edition

• Big Gulps, huh?

4. In Conclusion

To all ends and all beginnings. May you find yourself thankful for what’s finishing and excited for what’s starting.

Congratulations to all 2025 graduates!

—Barry