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There’s no need to hide behind the salary figure. If you and your colleagues r fine with a tool that’s “good enough” and would rather not undertake the mental b

There’s no need to hide behind the salary figure. If you and your colleagues r fine with a tool that’s “good enough” and would rather not undertake the mental burden of learning a new thing that’s fine. But don’t toss out all these irrelevant reasons that try to prop excel up as some truth

Vaslo 3y ago
I didn't say I was making that salary but our executives are. The "mental burden" for us is thinking deeply about our business and how our products affect our profitability, not wasting understanding the difference between a list and dictionary. While not perfect, Excel is a fantastic tool and the only relevance I need to prove my point is the fact that it dominates the industry because it gets things done. I'd be willing to bet you also probably look down on people who use Windows instead of Linux desktop. Or why they don't "burden" themselves to learn the oh so easy command line. If this is you, I get exactly the person you are and it defends my point even more.
- Given_47 3y ago
  My initial comment came across more antagonistic than I intended lol and I wasn’t trying to hand wave away the “mental burden.” I chose the word because it acknowledges the effort required, so apologies. And I didn’t mean that Excel is bad or anything, it’s extremely good at what it’s for. And like u mention, it’s much easier for someone to pick up excel and “get stuff done” than say python. My point was simply that there’s merits to one suggesting an alternative to excel related tasks. It’s not unequivocally a better choice for everyone, but it certainly can be. And lol windows is more so just the privacy thing and msft fucking their users around. I’ve heard great things about powershell. But ironically, the command line rlly isn’t difficult to grok, and certainly not hard relative to working with ridiculously nested XLOOKUP’s

Vaslo 3y ago

I didn't say I was making that salary but our executives are. The "mental burden" for us is thinking deeply about our business and how our products affect our profitability, not wasting understanding the difference between a list and dictionary. While not perfect, Excel is a fantastic tool and the only relevance I need to prove my point is the fact that it dominates the industry because it gets things done. I'd be willing to bet you also probably look down on people who use Windows instead of Linux desktop. Or why they don't "burden" themselves to learn the oh so easy command line. If this is you, I get exactly the person you are and it defends my point even more.

Given_47 3y ago
My initial comment came across more antagonistic than I intended lol and I wasn’t trying to hand wave away the “mental burden.” I chose the word because it acknowledges the effort required, so apologies. And I didn’t mean that Excel is bad or anything, it’s extremely good at what it’s for. And like u mention, it’s much easier for someone to pick up excel and “get stuff done” than say python. My point was simply that there’s merits to one suggesting an alternative to excel related tasks. It’s not unequivocally a better choice for everyone, but it certainly can be. And lol windows is more so just the privacy thing and msft fucking their users around. I’ve heard great things about powershell. But ironically, the command line rlly isn’t difficult to grok, and certainly not hard relative to working with ridiculously nested XLOOKUP’s