By Hiran de Silva Signposts are supposed to guide travellers. But what if the signpost is beautiful, polished, persuasive… yet pointing entirely the...
By Hiran de Silva And Why Is Nobody Allowed to Ask That Question? In any field, teaching is supposed to mean something.You choose a level.You choose...
By Hiran de Silva There is something almost comical—if it weren’t so damaging—about the Excel education industry today. Scroll through YouTube. Sign...
By Hiran de Silva Most Excel teaching follows a predictable pattern. Here’s a button.Here’s a checkbox.Here’s a formula.Press this, tick that, watch...
By Hiran de Silva Good evening everyone.Today I want to ask a question that sounds simple, but might change the way you see Excel forever. What is...
By Hiran de Silva For more than two decades, a falsehood has been repeated across boardrooms, sales presentations, and webinars: “You can’t...
By Hiran de Silva For too long, Excel has been misunderstood. ERP vendors call it Excel Hell.Cloud startups promise to replace it.Even some Excel...
By Hiran de Silva This presentation demonstrates that the $100-billion industry which has emerged over the past two decades — claiming to replace...
By Hiran de Silva Here is some research done by ChatGPT in November 2025. It’s interesting how the rhetoric has moved in the past few years...
By Hiran de Silva In every organization, there’s a spreadsheet specialist — the go-to person when something urgent, messy, or mission-critical needs...
