Tagline: Learn the principle, not just the button. By Hiran de Silva In the world of Excel, Power Query has become a kind of poster child for “modern...
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By Hiran de Silva For decades, Microsoft Excel has quietly powered the world’s most critical decisions — from corporate budgets to national...
By Hiran de Silva. There is an absurdity so rich, so uncomfortably familiar to those who’ve worked in large organizations, that it deserves to be...
By Hiran de Silva In today’s Excel and FP&A discourse, a troubling pattern has emerged: promotional noise masquerading as discussion. Many of us...
The Purple Square and the Spray Gun — Rethinking Excel, Systems, and Enterprise Thinking
By Hiran de Silva In offices around the world, workers open Excel and get to work inside their assigned “purple square.” It’s a metaphor—one that...
How Would You Choose? The Real Decision Between Modern Excel and Hub-and-Spoke Architecture
By Hiran de Silva In today’s Excel landscape, users are bombarded with “modern” features—Power Query, dynamic arrays, Excel tables, lambda functions...
By Hiran de Silva Let’s be clear from the outset: this is not a polite industry nudge. This is a direct, evidence-based challenge to a narrative that...
By Hiran de Silva In a thoughtful LinkedIn post, Raymond Macdonald—creative director and children’s author—raises a nuanced point about the...
By Hiran de Silva There’s a growing question in the minds of many thoughtful LinkedIn contributors: what happens to reasoned dissent when it clashes...
By Hiran de Silva There’s a phrase that crops up far too often in LinkedIn posts, tech webinars, and internal policy conversations. This morning...


