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This classic blog post resurfaced on the Rust subreddit today after someone posted that they wished ownership had been explained to them with a metaphor about pirate treasure chests.

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/

'But now Joe goes and writes a monad tutorial called “Monads are Burritos,” under the well-intentioned but mistaken assumption that if other people read his magical insight, learning about monads will be a snap for them. “Monads are easy,” Joe writes. “Think of them as burritos.”'

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