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 called out not with a...

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 who frequent...

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 reveals more than you...

By Hiran de Silva In today’s Excel landscape, users are bombarded with “modern” features—Power Query, dynamic arrays, Excel tables, lambda functions, and XLOOKUPs—each...

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 has gone unopposed...

By Hiran de Silva In a thoughtful LinkedIn post, Raymond Macdonald—creative director and children’s author—raises a nuanced point about the authenticity of AI...

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 with commercial...

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, Owen Price repeated it...

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. Power Query...

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 truly an upgrade? Or...