10 Weekend Reads
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee from the new
Grind & Brew, grab a seat where the late winter sun can warm you, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
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Excel Never Dies The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies. Most software we use at work exists in one of two categories: 1. It’s new and we love it for now. 2. It’s old but we have to use it and we hate it. But there’s one software product born in 1985 that inhabits its own category: it’s old, but we love it, we always will, and you’ll have to pry it from our cold, dead, fingers. That product, of course, is Microsoft Excel. (Not Boring)
In 2012, American heiress Tanya Dick-Stock and her husband discovered an enormous trove of documents while clearing out space ahead of their lavish wedding.
In a locked, indoor squash court of the bride’s palatial, 58-acre manor house on the island of Jersey, off the coast of France, they stumbled upon hundreds of bank boxes haphazardly stuffed with more than 350,000 confidential papers from her father’s offshore trust business.
“We walked in and were like, ‘What is this?’” says Dick-Stock. “The files had been there for years and no one had ever touched them. We had no idea what we were sitting on.”