# 2017 Year-End Reflections on Travel, Android Projects, and Personal Learnings

DevFeed: [2017 Year-End Reflections on Travel, Android Projects, and Personal Learnings](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-year-2017-25297.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kau.sh/blog/new-year-2017/>)

Author: Kaushik Gopal

Published: 2017-01-31T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Kaushik Gopal's Site](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kaushik-gopal-s-site.md>)

Topics: [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [LineageOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lineageos.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>)

## AI overview

A personal year-end reflection covering travel, creative pursuits, the Fragmented podcast, recognition as a Google Developer Expert, and open-sourcing the TrueTime library for Android. It also discusses lessons about managing projects and time.

## Source excerpt

I know it's almost the end of January but I like to take my time with these posts. You can take a look at my previous year-end posts here. In addition to just jotting things I was most proud/happy about this year, I also want to note down some of my learnings. There were many overwhelming moments that led to much introspection. I want to try and document some of those moments here (atleast the less embarrassing ones). So here goes: Stuff I did: # Fun stuff: ## met John Paul White : if you haven't heard of the band Civil Wars, I plead you take a listen learnt how to make my own latte (like an actual barista would). Given how big a coffee addict I am, this was bound to happen. Also landed up buying a Keurig machine for my new place >< (don't judge me, it's been the best investment ever) cleaned up the blog design yet again (did it in a Singapore lounge on an 8 hour layover) Travels: ## made the pilgrimage to Disneyland again this year (twice). The night parade blew my socks away (twice!) hiked Grand Canyon with some buddies. Grand doesn't even close to describing this place Went camping at Yellow Stone National Park. It was crazy fun and cold! (we didn't anticipate the temperature drop and woke up one morning in our tent to subzero temperatures.. that part was not so fun) travelled to Sweden for the first time (my first time to Europe). I went to speak at a conference and the overall experience was simply amazing Android stuff: ## Fragmented hit ep.70: this may not seem like a big deal by regular podcasting standards but Donn and I try very hard to keep Fragmented rich with content. Coming up with new interesting content every week is not as easy as you would think. But it's been a crazy and extremely rewarding journey so far Fragmented joins the Spec network. It's an amazing team and the collaboration really helps us move faster became a GDE. I'm honored and extremely grateful to have been recognized by Google for this open sourced TrueTime: as part of a really inter