By Hiran de Silva In December 1903, the Wright Brothers achieved the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. But history shows us something surprising—this world-changing...
Tagline: Learn the principle, not just the button. By Hiran de Silva In the world of Excel, Power Query has become a kind of poster child for “modern Excel” innovation...
By Hiran de Silva For decades, Microsoft Excel has quietly powered the world’s most critical decisions — from corporate budgets to national infrastructure plans. Yet in...
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...
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The Purple Square and the Spray Gun — Rethinking Excel, Systems, and Enterprise Thinking
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...
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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, 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...