Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Your friend has a dog. He has named it Dog. Now nobody is allowed to refer to a dog as a dog. Arrays have existed as a ‘variables’ concept for as long as humans have had to think of collections of related things. Fred Flintstone had an array of clubs of varying sizes. He knew…

Of course, Santa Claus is real. If we’re dealing with a 5-year-old. But there comes a time when the truth has to be reluctantly admitted. Excel is a large sheet of paper for a beginner. Hopefully, they will progress to a higher plane of awareness. When that happens we can safely tell them that Excel…

Of course, you can change a light bulb with a power drill. But why would you? Changing a light bulb with a power drill is quite a challenge. You would need two things. First, an adapter to connect with the bulb. The drill bit is too hard and the wrong shape; you need something like…

A collection of observed stupid ways of doing spreadsheets, when there are perfectly simple and less-risky easy ways of achieving the same result with Excel already! Stupid ways add risk, have a marathon of unnecessary steps, cannot cope with modifications needed in the future, are not scalable, and cannot reach across the organization. Stupid ways…