tazjin once told me something koanish in the lines of:
When a man 'understands' monads, he writes a blog post about it. And it takes three such posts for him to really understand monads.
This text is my first 'post' in this hypothetised progression. I anticipate missing the point, so the intended audience is not other neophytes, but seasoned FP folk looking at me condenscendingly before replying "you're not there yet".