Alex loved gaming but was drowning in student debt and living paycheck to paycheck. One night, after staring at a $2,000 custom PC build he couldn't afford, he opened Notepad and saved a blank file: 100k_Gaming.txt .
Six months in, Alex shared a screenshot of his 100k_Gaming.txt log on a gaming forum. He expected to be mocked. Instead, he found a community of thousands who felt the same financial guilt. 100k_Gaming.txt
: Every hour he spent gaming had to be matched by an hour of "skill-grinding" (learning coding or graphic design). He tracked his progress in the file. Alex loved gaming but was drowning in student
: He forbade himself from buying new games until he finished five he already owned. This saved him hundreds in "Steam Sale" impulses. He expected to be mocked
Alex eventually bought that $2,000 PC. But when he sat down to play, he realized the most rewarding game he had ever played was the one he tracked in a simple .txt file.
By the time Alex reached his $100,000 goal three years later, the text file was several megabytes long. It contained: