[roeles]

My understanding of Taoism is that it's all about moderation, balance.

There is probably a lot of long-term value in your process. Given my understanding, I would expect you to look at your employer holistically too, and realize that short term results are also valuable in their own way.

Like with yin-yang, short-term results hold within them the long term results: the money earnt enables the company to exist in the long term. Lessons learnt from delivering value can spark insight for architecture in the future.

Vice versa, the long term enables the short term. A codebase with little technical debt allows you to quickly implement changes in the short term.