@inthehands I *am* sorry it ends before he talks about alternatives to null. There are some good ones.
But the Maybe monad is mostly just three nulls in a trenchcoat. It doesn't fix the worst problems with it, it just adds a lot more verbosity to the problem.
Given how fast he was explaining stuff, it *would* have been fascinating to see how he explained monads in 45 seconds 🙂