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> But you will be hard-pressed to find a true admirer of Excel. It’s a keyword search away. There are many, and they love Excel. How did you not find them? https://excel-esports.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Modeling_World_Cup https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/15r53rc/why_i_unapol...
> But you will be hard-pressed to find a true admirer of Excel. It’s a keyword search away. There are many, and they love Excel. How did you not find them? https://excel-esports.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Modeling_World_Cup https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/15r53rc/why_i_unapol...
Or are maybe they mean everyone is abandoning excel after they failed to patch out the cheeses and tried to attract the party gamers by breaking the meta with xlookup?
This is really two articles in one. First a (great) history of the spreadsheet. Then it goes into the risk that comes from looking at everything in a company as numbers, attractive now that you have the spreadsheet to manipulate numbers easily, but there are many things that can’t adequately be represented as a spreadsheet without losing valuable information in the process. Finally, AI agents now make it tempting to…
I wrote this, hope people enjoy it!
> But you will be hard-pressed to find a true admirer of Excel. It’s a keyword search away. There are many, and they love Excel. How did you not find them? https://excel-esports.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Modeling_World_Cup https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/15r53rc/why_i_unapol...
Excel is the pinnacle of user space applications. I wonder if there will ever be a tool—physical or otherwise—that has a higher combination of (utility * approachability). Excel is used by middle-schoolers and post-doc graduates. You can run any kind of businesses in excel. You could go to space using excel. You can make art in excel. You can make a CPU in excel. You could write a book in excel (maybe that’s a stretc…
I know, because that's what I did!