#248 – Crypto Literacy, Daily Habits, and New Business Ideas with Dru Riley and Greg Isenberg

What's up, everybody? This is Cortland from ndhackers.com, and you're listening to the nd hackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and making a lot of money in the process. And on this show, I sit down with these Indie Hackers to discuss the ideas, the opportunities, and the strategies they're taking advantage of so the rest of us can do the same. So I'm here with Drew Riley and Greg Eisenberg, two people who've both been on the Indiachis podcast. Drew is the founder of trends.vc, one of my favorite newsletters. Drew, you cover basically every thinkable market and trend and idea, and you do this, like, super deep dive breakdown of it, and it's super useful. Greg is the founder of Late Checkout and also the cohost of a new podcast called The Room Where It Happens, which is also kind of like a community as well. It's not just a podcast. And Drew's got the same thing going on with his, newsletter. So I guess in a way, like, all three of us are, like, media and community. And I don't know. I think it'd be interesting just to to riff with you guys on some of these topics. I I think actually, actually, I shouldn't say I think I know that late checkout pays for trends.vc. So we're we're customer. You're paying me too. I'm a paying customer as well. Awesome. Thank you, guys. So I'm curious about you guys' this concept of, like, an information diet where okay. You got your food diet. You get food from whatever source. Some people are vegetarians. Some people eat a lot of meat like me. It's also the information diet. Right? Like, where do you get your information from? Where do you guys learn? And I follow you both on Twitter. I've I've listened to your podcast, Greg. I read your newsletter, Drew. I'm curious where you guys learn about all the stuff that you you put out. Because I have my sources, and sometimes I feel like it's lacking. And I wanna know, like, other people who are smart, like, learn about what's going on and keep your ear to the ground. So what do you guys what's your guys' information diet like? I'll go first. My go to medium are podcasts. I use a player called, Castro, and they just allow you to build queues. So I just go through those queues, and, I don't stick to one podcast. As it falls in the queue, it gets prioritized, and I just flow through there. Three x speed. What do you do while you listen to podcasts? Walk. Yeah. Mainly walk. I think that's my secret weapon for research. My favorite medium for, Trans VC reports. My information hack is YouTube premium, which not many people talk about it, but it's, like I think it's, like, $10.12 $90.10, $12.13 bucks, something like that. You can watch YouTube without ads. It's amazing. And you …