What I’m doing now, with these Excel challenges, is not accidental.It’s not random.And it’s definitely not content-for-content’s-sake. It’s strategy. The Problem I’m Pre...
Archive - December 2025
By Hiran de Silva Earlier today I shared a preview of the Friends Expenses Challenge with a number of people on LinkedIn. My expectation is simple — and deliberate. Some...
Multi-Spreadsheet · Multi-User · Enterprise-Scale Thought Experiment By Hiran de Silva Background This challenge is inspired by a request from Ellen, who asked whether...
One question: Who is your customer? And one conclusion: Your customer is not the Excel influencer.Your customer is your boss’s boss. Everything else flows from that. Let...
And Why One-Step Excel Challenges Miss the Point By Hiran de Silva The Global Excel Airbus Challenge is deliberately multi-level.That is not a gimmick. It is the core...
Introducing the Global Excel Airbus Multi-Level Challenge By Hiran de Silva Almost everything we see on social media about data visualisation follows the same pattern...
By Hiran de Silva Who truly benefits from Excel? Ask the Excel influencer community and they’ll tell you it’s the millions of beginners learning VLOOKUP for the first...