>that company is successful in spite of itself
That's a pretty strong opinion. Some would argue that FB is successful because of stuff like that.
A bit of a sidenote, but after all, I remember how badly Zuck was clowned everywhere (including by FB shareholders and people here on HN) immediately after the purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. People were saying that FB is dying and Zuck is trying to buy companies that are hyped but irrelevant to the core business out of desperation. These days, it is a pretty universal sentiment that those acquisitions were some of the smartest purchase decisions he could have made at the time.
Most of HN didn't have some insider information which Facebook did. This information was acquired by surreptitious data logging of a VPN "security" app [0]. This is the same app which was controversially packaged as a "research" app and then forced to take down from the App store [1].
[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/22/17771298/facebook-onavo-p...
But even in the US, medical equipment breaks down. Just not at near as high a rate.
I made medical imaging software for diagnosis and analysis. We would get a regulatory proctology exam every release. These guys would find arithmetic errors in papers referenced to support algorithms used in the software, and ask us about them. (Incidentally, that's where I learned never to trust "peer reviewed" papers or dissertations in computer science. Always check it, in detail, yourself. CS guys have to be some of the worst mathematicians I've seen during my time in scientific research.)
But yeah, the FDA were that anal in our case. If they were not that anal for you, I'm not sure why that is? Maybe the radiation? We were putting out software that potentially dealt with, essentially, irradiating humans. Software that controlled radioactive devices. Etc. No one wants the equivalent of a dirty bomb going off in some small town somewhere. So I don't blame the FDA for the whole "every i dotted, every t crossed" treatment. It was actually reassuring. At least in our case.
I think it's 10,000% more likely to be due to so much post-2008 ZIRP money floating around, so why give a shit about quality or consequences? As long as advertising and copyright industries are able to establish themselves as the fundamental arbiters of all content, anything else that happens to us or the companies are broken eggs for the proverbial omelet.
The people embracing MFaBT exhibit nothing resembling "punk attitude."
That motivational quote should never have made it out into corporate communication. It was embraced by everyone[1] because it seemed edgy and hey that company is successful in spite of itself.
That should never have been embraced by anyone especially outside specific contexts.
[1]Just about everyone embraced it because it was a kind of punk attitude in the face of stodgy enterprise development schedules. Everyone wanted to seem cool, so they went whole hog.