If you look back on the history of innovation you will find this pattern. There’s a process that has it’s inherent pains. The pains are generally accepted by...
Archive - December 2019
UX means User Experience. This is now a hot topic as people use apps on smartphones to do things quickly and easily. UX in the context of spreadsheets is also a hot...
Wikipedia This is when something is transmitted by attaching itself to something else that’s travelling. For millennia ‘data’ was transmitted by being...
(This blog has nothing at all to do with Bond25. That’s ‘No Time To Die’. I have a theory that the original intended title of the movie was ‘No...
Intro to ‘terminology’ We’ve had spreadsheets since 1978. And mostly, we have thought of spreadsheets in much the same way over this time. In order to...
Who hasn’t heard of Lego? Lego is a set of plastic pieces that cleverly fit together to make models of things. The pieces themselves are simple, but when put...
In this video I get a lot of messages asking how I update a table from the spreadsheet. You can see this @5:02 of the video. (Note: the video is about Spreadsheet Risk...
Non-Spreadsheet. Found on LinkedIn 19/12/2109.
Thanks to Claire Reid who I met some years ago while volunteering for Crisis at Christmas.
Any business spreadsheet user will confirm that the idea of successfully replacing spreadsheets with something else is a myth. This is evidenced in the huge reaction to...
Where do you dig? Imagine you’re in the American Wild West in the 1800s. You’re prospecting for gold. The basic tools that you’d use are a shovel, a pick axe and a...