Tony Morris

I'm willing to spend a few hours showing you my methods for teaching monad to coworkers, university students and randoms. I'm not sure you're interested in addressing criticisms though.

Same.

do you find that co-workers or other prospective mentees respond well, and lend you their trust, when the first things you say to them about their current work is so condescending and dismissive as "completely wrong", "not even elementary", and "would fail undergrad"?

Yes; they become curious as to why and find it challenging. I'm attempting to give you a scope of your misunderstanding. It's not "just a little bit" or "just pedantry." Not everyone is so defensive or dismissive. Consider, perhaps this is hindering your progress in learning.

except I'm quite certain I know way more about the topic than you are giving me credit for. Not nearly as much as you, but a lot more than the zero grade you're giving me.

you might be an expert on the topic but you're posting things which make up beginner mistakes (e.g. monads are containers) - so either way, now what?

I am definitely not an expert on anything in FP, least of all monads. Your constant derision of what I do know, which comes from an entirely different context and has an entirely different purpose than yours, notwithstanding.

Try it with me, say it out loud, "I don't understand a thing, and that is OK. My peers may tell me I don't understand a thing, and that is OK too." Feel free to insert different "things" in there. I just did it for three different things.