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...
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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...
By Hiran de Silva There’s an increasingly fashionable confidence in the Excel world—especially around Power Query. And to some extent, it’s deserved...
Why Put the Data Model Inside the Workbook—When It Could Be Serving Everyone? The overlooked case for Excel’s most powerful architecture: Hub-and-Spoke
By Hiran e Silva In the world of enterprise budgeting and reporting, we often hear that Power Query is the modern way to consolidate data. But is it...
Why Are Enterprise Spreadsheets Built for Novices? A Response to Mark Proctor and the Literal Thinkers
By Hiran de Silva Mark Proctor’s stance on Excel training—popular, profitable, and persuasive—rests on a deceptively simple premise: “This is...
By Hiran de Silva In the booming world of Excel courses and certifications, most training is sold on a familiar promise: “Here’s what’s new. Learn...


