From the article, the Eightfold Path to Monad Satori:

    Don't read the monad tutorials.
    No really, don't read the monad tutorials.
    Learn about Haskell types.
    Learn what a typeclass is.
    Read the Typeclassopedia[1].
    Read the monad definitions.
    Use monads in real code.
    Don't write monad-analogy tutorials.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia