By Hiran de Silva Imagine you’re lost in a desert. You’ve been walking for hours. You’re thirsty. You’re tired. There’s nothing around you...
Archive - September 2026
By Hiran de Silva I have just seen a post from Paul Barnhurst on LinkedIn suggesting that Excel is acquiring more and more database-like functionality. And therefore...
Everybody agrees that Excel Hell exists. But what caused it? By Hiran de Silva There is something fascinating about the long-running attack on Excel in corporate...
By Hiran de Silva There is something about Reg that I don’t think I fully appreciated when I first started developing the Tim and Reg story. Reg is a disruptor...
Much Ado — and Then There’s Nothing Left to Do Manually By Hiran de Silva Tim is very good at Excel. In fact, Tim takes his Excel skills seriously. He follows the latest...
By Hiran de Silva Something has changed in the Excel world over the past 30 years. I don’t mean Excel itself. Obviously, Excel has changed enormously. It has...
We Have Forgotten Something That Civilisations Knew Thousands of Years Ago By Hiran de Silva The miracle of Excel is still not fully realised. There are extraordinary...
By Hiran de Silva This part is an addendum to this article The History of Separating Data from the Spreadsheets. At this point in the story, we need to introduce one...
We Have Forgotten Something That Civilisations Knew Thousands of Years Ago By Hiran de Silva The miracle of Excel is still not fully realised. There are extraordinary...
By Hiran de Silva I have been looking again at one of the most interesting attacks on Excel that I have encountered over the years. It comes from Workday Adaptive...