An instrument · theaxes.fyi lesson 16
Keyring
There are ten decisions about your working life. An employer normally holds all of them. Working from home moves one. This asks you about all ten, and then reports the one thing a yes-or-no question about remote work cannot: which rung you are actually standing on, and whether it is yours.
- Statements
- 20, plus one
- Time
- About four minutes
- Reading
- One rung of five
- Stored
- On your device only
What it does differently
Ten dimensions invites a total: count what you hold, call it a score. Keyring refuses to, because a total lets six cheap concessions outvote the four decisions that determine anything. Four of the ten are gates. They open in order — place, then time, then process, then terms — and no amount of latitude outside them moves you up a single rung.
So the reading is not a number out of ten. It is the highest rung whose gates are all open, the count of keys you hold that are not on the path at all, and the name of the next gate. If your answers sit on the midpoint of every key, it returns no rung rather than inventing one.
The twenty-first question is not about a dimension. It asks whether what you have could be withdrawn next month without your agreement — and it decides whether your rung is reported as a transfer or as a loan.
Answer about the job you actually have, not the one in the handbook. “I could in principle, but nobody does” is a no.
Your reading
The keyring
Score per key, and the margin that put it there. Gate keys are shaded.
The ten keys are a decomposition of what the single word “remote” is covering, and the four gates are an argument about which of them are load-bearing — not a validated psychometric scale. Every key is scored from exactly two statements with equal and opposite weights, so answering the same way throughout scores zero on all ten and returns no rung. That is deliberate. Read the lesson for why a total would have lied to you, and lesson 06 for the axis this one is a firm-sized copy of.