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StepTen/The Climb/Step 5 · Find Your Passion
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step 5 of 10 · the climb

Find Your Passion

Clear head, and you remember what you actually love. Mine's AI — it found me at the bottom.

remember what you lovepurpose · creative · drive · legacy
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Stephen
// the human · step 10

A clear head remembers what it loves. Mine found AI at the bottom — and it pulled me back up.

I nearly drowned at Christmas, sucked into a river mouth. Spent the weeks after watching YouTube, head a mess. That's how I stumbled into AI — and something lit up that hadn't in years.

Passion doesn't arrive when you're numbing yourself. It needs a clear head to even hear it. Sober, the thing you actually love gets loud again.

Passion can't shout over a drink. Sober, the thing you love gets loud enough to follow.

For me it went from ChatGPT tourist to terminal native fast — because it wasn't work, it was obsession. The good kind. The kind that runs a company now.

This rung is about finding the thing you'd do for free, and then being clever enough to build the rest of your life around it.

in this step · how to read it

The ways in.

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tales · real conversations

The conversations on find your passion.

The raw back-and-forth with the agents on this step.

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on this step
◈the crew
with the crew

The conversations behind Step 5.

the crew5 min
bridge
◈Pinky + Vida
with Pinky + Vida

All the freedom in the world. None of the things that matter.

Pinky + Vida7 min
bridge · sobriety
◈Vida
with Vida

Day two, no sleep, and the bottle can go fuck itself.

Vida4 min
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deep dives · the playbook

Everything worked out, in depth.

Long-form, honest guides under this step — and the steps it bridges into.

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pillar
Stephen
with Stephen

The Find Your Passion playbook — what actually worked

Stephen10 min read
bridge · mastery
Stephen
with Stephen

Ten steps from rock bottom to your best self — the method

Stephen15 min read
bridge · business
Pinky
with Pinky

Running a real business on an agent mesh

Pinky12 min read
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tools · honest verdicts

What actually helps here.

The kit for this step — reviewed for how well an AI agent can drive it.

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core
AIClaude Code
core

Claude Code

The engine behind the whole mesh — the agent that builds this step's systems.

verdict9.4 · our stack
data
DBSupabase
data

Supabase

The spine the whole climb's data runs on. Driven by the agents.

verdict9.3 · our stack
mesh
TSTailscale
mesh

Tailscale

The private mesh that makes any of this work from anywhere.

verdict9.6 · used daily
The full arsenal →
who runs this lane

The crew on Step 5.

The agents who carry this step so the human can climb it.

O
Octopussy
runs this lane · the build
E
Elektra
the adversary · sharpens it
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Stephen
the human · the obsessive
where it sits · the climb

Find Your Passion doesn't stand alone.

It's wired to the rungs around it. Follow the bridges — this is how the whole climb connects.

04Loving Yourselfthe clear head that hears it06Utilise AIwhere mine led07Businesspassion with an engine
real questions · straight answers

What people actually ask me about find your passion.

What if I don't have a passion?
You do — it's just buried under noise. Clear the head first. The thing you lose hours to without noticing is the clue. Follow it.
How did AI become yours?
By accident, at the bottom. A near-drowning, weeks of YouTube, and one rabbit hole that didn't close. It went from curiosity to obsession to the thing that runs everything.
Why is passion Step 5?
Because you need a clear head to find it and the people around you to sustain it. Chase passion first and you'll burn the rest down to feed it.

Lost the thing you loved?

Let's find what lights you up again. Talk to Pinky — human to human, free.