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...
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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 —...
Not Wrong — But Already Superseded By Hiran de Silva For over two decades, the same five criticisms of Excel have been repeated in enterprise...
(And It Was Obsolete the Day It Arrived) By Hiran de Silva Let me explain what I mean by obsolete, because I know that statement raises eyebrows. At...
—or why Power Query dazzles enthusiasts but fails the generals By Hiran de Silva This piece is a response to a recent LinkedIn post by Richard Nero...
Transparency, Relevance, and the Two Worlds of Excel By Hiran de Silva After more than forty years of spreadsheets in business—and nearly as long for...
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...
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 —...
Multi-Spreadsheet · Multi-User · Enterprise-Scale Thought Experiment By Hiran de Silva Background This challenge is inspired by a request from Ellen...
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...