Monads are not like burritos Posted on June 16, 2025 Tagged monad , pedagogy , meme , burrito , analogy , Haskell Share on In January 2009, while just a baby first-year PhD student, I wrote a blog post titled Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” . In it, I made the argument that humans tend to learn best by first grappling with concrete examples, and only later proceeding to…