The short answer The boiled egg story is almost certainly allegorical, not a documented historical event — but it survives because it captures a profound truth about...
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A Complete History — and Why It Still Defines Serious Excel Work By Hiran de Silva The question “What is VBA?” keeps coming up — especially on social media, LinkedIn in...
Location, Architecture, and Process Come First By Hiran de Silva A critique on this post by Folorunso Adebare Lala on LinkedIn. There is a growing and welcome interest...
Opening — External Authentication During the pandemic, WIRED Magazine published an article about the people quietly holding global organisations together. Not software...
It’s About What Must Exist Together for Enterprise Work to Happen By Hiran de Silva A recurring confusion in Excel and analytics discussions is the tendency to label...
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SHOCK: Both the Excel Replacement Industry and Excel Experts Agree on This — and They’re Both Wrong
There is something deeply paradoxical happening in the world of Excel. On the one hand, we have an enormous and highly successful Excel ecosystem. Excel influencers...
By Hiran de Silva Let’s start with a simple, almost innocent question: “Can you build a budgeting workbook for 400 departments?” Almost everyone in the Excel world...
The Oz “Friends Expenses” Demo (and Why Everyone Missed the Point) Excel education is broken — but it’s nobody’s fault.This is Part 2 of the series, where we stop...
Part 1: The Pyramid, the Purple Square, and the Spray Gun This is the opening sound-bite for a series of demonstrations: Excel education is broken — and it’s nobody’s...
Not Wrong — But Already Superseded By Hiran de Silva For over two decades, the same five criticisms of Excel have been repeated in enterprise contexts: Scalability Reach...