I am usually chill. The world moves through me without much trouble.That said, in my head, I notice about a hundred subtly "incorrect" or subtly broken things in the world. I am secretly the biggest nitpicker, and this is a view into that part of my mind.The liftMy apartment's lift has capacitive buttons. Capacitive buttons don't have a tactile feel, but the implications are beyond the dissatisfaction of calling the lift. Old people struggle to figure out how hard to press, and the feedback is not immediate. The press detection is unreliable.The blind can work with physical buttons, as they can feel the grooves and edges. There could be braille too. But every button inside and outside this lift is behind a flat glass panel, and so there's no clear marker for them.The doors of the lift also close after 30 seconds, in an apartment with extremely low footfall. Most people assume the doors don't close, and have to press a manual door close capacitive button every single time, every single day.The softwareNearly every software or app I use requires a novel-sized book each if I were to list down the problems I run into. To put it in very broad categories, the issues are often:The app doesn't actually succeed in its basic functions about half the timeThe app is extremely slow and unresponsiveThe app behaviour is surprisingMy experience of using software lines up with Dan Luu.Chairs and tablesI used to work out of an expensive WeWork. The chairs and tables are awful. They fail at basic ergonomics. The backrests of their chairs are arched badly and the tables are too high for most people of Indian proportions. They pretty much guarantee chronic back issues.Dealing with itMost of these problems have some useful levers for dealing with it, and I have made use of them to the extent I can.Lift: Not done much about this, probably the hardest to fix. But when I see an old person (there's an old couple who lives upstairs) I operate around the quirks of the lift, so that it's less jank. If it's just me, I take the stairs, it's better for my health anyway.Software: I avoid using features that don't work well, or I have developed some habits and workarounds (like copying text as I type it, instinctively hitting save). In general though, my software use for personal things is light. At work, there's probably little I can do, if the organisation has chosen bad software.Chairs and tables: We bought our own chairs and tables, which solved the problem.I am starting to realise that I am likely happy to be the person "dealing with it" so that other people eventually don't have to.