By Hiran de Silva What is magic? The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously gave us a wonderfully useful definition: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is...
Archive - September 2026
By Hiran de Silva I saw an interesting post recently about Excel’s Data Model. The author described how he had once been “petrified” of the Data Model, before eventually...
By Hiran de Silva There is a very specific idea behind my Mission Impossible series. It is not simply about solving difficult Excel problems. It is not even about...
By Hiran de Silva Let me give you the short version of my argument. Give the Excel community an enterprise-scale business problem. It can be a familiar business problem...
The MVP Programme and the Rise of the Car-Park Driver By Hiran de Silva There is something fundamentally wrong with Excel education. I have been writing about this for...
By Hiran de Silva There is an enormous amount of Excel education in the world. YouTube is full of it. LinkedIn is full of it. There are courses, books, conferences...
Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say By Wall Street Journal November 2017 Tatyana Shumsky Updated Nov. 29, 2017 9:38...
By Hiran de Silva This is a challenge. It is a challenge to anyone who says, writes or promotes the idea that VBA is obsolete. That VBA is legacy. That VBA has been...