[asplake]

But in between those two extremes, the curious. I know enough to be intrigued but not to critique. Hoping for some insight here.

[jerf]

If there is any concept in the whole of the programming world that has demonstrated that people can be screwed up by dropping the wrong misconception in at just the right time, it is the monad concept.

It's best to not learn from wrong things, which is, unfortunately, statistically most of the things talking about monads.