StepTen is ten rungs from rock bottom to your best self, climbed in order, because the order is the whole point.
Sobriety at the base, because nothing built on a drink holds. Then a life worth being sober for, the people, your own head, your passion, the AI that multiplies it, the business, the money, the freedom — and at the top, Step Ten, the realised human. The tenth agent is you, whole, with the other nine running.
I made it to the top once and slid all the way down because I'd skipped rungs and didn't notice the slope. This is me climbing it again, in order, sober, in public. There's no Step Eleven. Ten is a standard you hold, not a finish line you cross.
