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...
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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...
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The Journey of the Spreadsheet Specialist — Delivering on the Boss’s Needs (The Taj Mahal Parable Part ?)
By Hiran de Silva In every organization, there’s a spreadsheet specialist — the go-to person when something urgent, messy, or mission-critical needs...
By Hiran de Silva The Literal Direction vs. The Lateral Explanation A story about how we learn, who we trust, and why so many of us end up in the...
This is the companion demonstration to our earlier explainer on the historical background of Excel and databases.It follows naturally from the QCA...
(And Why So Many People Misunderstand It) By Hiran de Silva Introduction: A Word That’s Been Misunderstood The word database has been so loosely used...