"Monad burritos" is a riff on Brent Yorgey's "monad tutorial fallacy" post[1], a piece of lore from the Haskell community which speaks to the phenomenon of tuto

"Monad burritos" is a riff on Brent Yorgey's "monad tutorial fallacy" post[1], a piece of lore from the Haskell community which speaks to the phenomenon of tutorials/learning resources published by people who've just barely learned (or haven't quite yet understood) the lessons they purport to teach. They're particularly wont to highlight snappy "insights" that tie together a concept from the author's perspective, but that can be kind of useless or counterproductive to just hear about, since the work was done by grappling with concepts to arrive at an intuition, and the snappy bit doesn't actually impart any intuition on its own. And there is a vibrant ecosystem of Japanese learning resources like this. The landing page for this book sure smells like one! And this line from the OP: > In true hacker ethos, Japanese Complete was a project started to address a need the founders had and now it’s turning into a tangible product so it is quite exciting for us and we appreciate your continued support. absolutely sounds like a project started by someone who just learned a little Japanese ("a need the founders had"). It's a well-trod space. [1]: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/ https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...