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This is your minute of less English lesson.
We're talking about the word "hairy".
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People can be hairy.
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But I was working on a
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contract and I called it "hairy".
How can a contract be hairy?
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If something is hairy, that's just calling it
complicated. You'll also hear the word "hairier".
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This contract is hairier than the last
contract I signed. It's more complicated.
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You'll hear it a lot with the word "problem".
A big hairy problem, that's complicated.
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is one of those big, hairy
problems that we have to solve.
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When you have this big hairy problem, let's break
it down into simple and manageable steps, right?
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So I think part of it is decomposing
the big difficult hairy thing of doing
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all of those things at once into a bunch of
smaller tasks that you can do all the time.
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Can you think of something
in your life that's hairy?
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