Dr. Brian Beckman, a Channel 9 celebrity, astrophysicist and senior software engineer thought it would be a very good idea to address the complexity of monads in an easy to understand way: a technical conversation at the whiteboard with yours truly for Channel 9.
Intro to FP and Monads in general and Haskell in particular. You'll have to remember high school algebra, tho :) He tries to explain this without going too much into the mathematical details:
Just think a monoid satisfies all the axioms of a group with the exception of having inverses.
