are there people that when you hang around them make you better in some way? which way and how?

Prolly, one thing is for sure, if you hang around with losers and thus lower your standard of friend requirements, you become an loser yourself

I've got a sr engineer who's really good at delivering. Usually to the detriment of everything else, but the business likes it, so he makes money

Yes

One of those is groups is people here talking about coding topics I had not heard about. I have watched and learned a lot here.

I am also glad to know I don't have a giant shitting problem other people have. Makes one grateful.

As a general rule, whenever I am interested in something && the other person is much better at it, than I am.

One such person is my oldest friend, whom I met at my fist job.

We've been friends for roughly 16 years && I've learned a lot from him.

@D-4got10-01 ooo that sounds really goood

@Demolishun I find myself just distracted by this stuff and it leads to nothing 😝. https://lobste.rs/ is like that. like why do I need all this random knowledge lol, but I keep being distracted by it, then daydream about stuff I actually have no interest in. raghh. so distractable! well that's for me anyway 😁

@lungdart how does he make you better?

@jestdotty he makes me value delivery more, and I think that it has more value for sure.

Taking it to extremes isn't great though