--- title: "What Dune can tell us about setting our goals" url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-dune-can-tell-us-about-setting-our-goals-vkouhcoms source_url: https://event-driven.io/en/dune_and_long_term_goals type: article source: "Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz" published: 2026-06-17T11:26:15.797Z updated: 2026-06-17T11:32:52.772Z tags: ["architecture"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Dune can tell us about setting our goals **[Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz](https://daily.dev/sources/event-driven-io)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Drawing from a Dune quote about long-term decision-making, the author argues that neither big upfront design nor emergent design alone works in software architecture. The key is staying flexible, treating technology choices as tools rather than goals, and being willing to revise decisions. The author applies this philosophy personally — working as a consultant not as an identity but as a means to achieve life goals — and extends it to system design: architecture should serve business goals, not become an end in itself. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman](https://daily.dev/posts/startup-software-architecture---you-never-really-throw-it-away-a-conversation-with-david-gudeman-xpz7yhmar) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Bring back opinionated architecture](https://daily.dev/posts/bring-back-opinionated-architecture-amhmnkpbc) · Frederick's delirious rantings · 38 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-dune-can-tell-us-about-setting-our-goals-vkouhcoms)