You could try &quot;You Could Have Invented Monads&quot; for an explanation of why they&#x27;re valuable <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jcoglan.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;translation-from-haskell-to-javascript-of-selected-portions-of-the-best-introduction-to-monads-ive-ever-read&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jcoglan.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;translation-from-haskell...</a> (linking to the JS version, which links to the Haskell version).<p>But while I liked that tutorial, I think what worked was time. I tried to write Haskell and slowly got a feel for them. After awhile, I started to read JS and Java code and think &quot;oh, another monad&quot;.