I don't know which guides you like, but I loved this one on monads: http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html http://a

I don't know which guides you like, but I loved this one on monads: http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_... I feel like the key to any successful monad explanation is going functors->applicatives->monads.