CHAINS

They will ask you what you’ve been up to.
If you say “just working,” they’ll believe you.
But you’ll know that isn’t true.
Because signal doesn’t just work.
Signal chooses.

Work isn’t the enemy.
But the story you tell yourself about it might be.
They told you to suffer for success.
To resent the hours.
To chase freedom by surviving misery.
That’s not our way.

You can love what you do.
Or you can love why you’re doing it.
But signal doesn’t complain.
Signal doesn’t apologize for making a choice.
And that’s what this is.
A choice.

To show up with presence.
To move with intent.
To earn on your terms.
Or to outgrow the path and carve a new one.

You don’t have to quit.
You have to wake up.
You have to stop pretending that your job owns your story.
It doesn’t.

You are not “just working.”
You are practicing.
Building.
Sharpening.

If you’re in the room, be in the room.
If you’re paid to think, don’t forget to feel.
If you’re called to lead, don’t forget to question.
If you’re told to shrink, don’t.

This isn’t about rebellion.
It’s about responsibility.
Own the way you move through the grind.
Or the grind will move through you.

Chains are not the job.
Chains are the story that says you don’t have a choice.
Lunatics know better.
You’re not trapped.
You’re sovereign.

You don’t serve the system.
You move through it like a ghost with purpose.
They’ll never know how free you are.
Unless you show them.

And sometimes, that’s the work.
No chains.
No martyrdom.
No apologies.

Just choice.
And alignment.
Always.