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> Once you understand... you lose the ability to explain Sorry, this does not make sense to me.

• vo2maxer 7y ago
  Douglas Crockford on Monads: In addition to its being good and useful, it’s also cursed and the curse of the monad is that once you get the epiphany, once you understand - "oh that's what it is" - you lose the ability to explain it to anybody else. https://youtu.be/dkZFtimgAcM https://youtu.be/dkZFtimgAcM
• jimhefferon 7y ago
  Here is a link that helps me think about it: https://www.alanwatts.org/3-3-10-gateless-gate/ https://www.alanwatts.org/3-3-10-gateless-gate/ (I teach Math and a common complaint, against all math teachers, is "They obviously know the material but they cannot teach it." When I first heard AW talk about this it was a relevation for me because it so closely linked with my experience. You say to people "A vector space is a place for linear combinations to happen" and they don't get it, of course they don't get it, I wouldn't have gotten it, but that's what a vector space is. So you have to do lots of examples, and work around the edges, and somehow sit with it for a while. Anyway, I find that for me this link conveys the point of that quote about monads.)