Reading the Typeclassopedia is a great way to hear this all over again slightly different and is therefore highly recommended. Really the biggest step is, as j

Reading the Typeclassopedia is a great way to hear this all over again slightly different and is therefore highly recommended. Really the biggest step is, as jrockway says, to realize that Monad is (kind of) a verb. "Here's a list and here's how you can monad it."