The table is a virtual one, but it feels real enough. France, Brazil, South Korea, London, South Africa—five locations, five time zones, one shared question: where does our attention actually go, and how do we get it back? Janita—known affectionately as Fruitloop, a name that already tells you this won’t be a stiff conversation—opens with…
By observing a mentoring conversation between Fruitloop and Sarah There is a moment in nearly every school day when time stops feeling human. The bell rings too fast. The bus waits for no one. A science lab runs late. Thoughts pile up like snowballs, growing heavier with each step. For Sarah—a bright, candid teenager navigating…
How Presence, Silence, and Eye Contact Turn Conversation into Connection With Fruitloop & Sarah At first, it’s just a greeting. “Hello Sarah. How are you today?”“Hello. I’m good. And you?” Nothing remarkable—until it is. Because what follows isn’t a lesson about vocabulary or grammar. It’s a slow, thoughtful exploration of something far rarer in modern…
It began with a small, almost comic detail—Ritesh sitting at home in Bengaluru, headphones on, trying not to overhear a family conversation in the next room. His brother-in-law had just had a baby. The house was alive with chatter, pride, excitement, the warm chaos of family news. And yet Ritesh was here, committed to a…
Episode 32 opens the way Peeling Potatoes often does: with a wink, a wobble, and a confession. The Mayor announces it’s “your show,” Fruitloop pushes back (“It’s our show”), and within thirty seconds we’re already knee-deep—no, deeper than knee-deep—in life. Too many tabs open. Too many plates spinning. And, naturally, three listeners who may or…
If the present moment had a knock, it wouldn’t be loud. It would tap you gently on the shoulder and say: “Hey. You’re here. Try not to think about the next moment.” That’s basically the conclusion of a wide-ranging, funny, sometimes candy-floss-scented conversation between Sarah, a teenager navigating school, friendships, and her phone battery, and…
There is a particular sound a Lunch meeting makes when it really gets going. A mix of greetings in different accents, laughter arriving slightly before the punchline, and the gentle chaos of people remembering—mid-sentence—that they are, in fact, being recorded. This one began like that. Warm. Slightly unruly. Comfortably human. The theme on the table…
Mornings are often treated as something to survive rather than something to shape. Alarms ring too early, the outside world feels cold and unwelcoming, and the mind jumps immediately into stress mode. But in a quiet, reflective exchange between a teacher known as Fruitloop and her student Sarah, a different perspective emerges: mornings are not…
It’s early in Brazil. Late evening in Bengaluru. And mid-afternoon in Europe—right in the messy middle of a Monday that’s already too full. That’s the quiet comedy of this conversation: three men, three continents, three different pressures on their calendars, trying to talk about a single idea that sounds simple until you live it—“living in…
How a teenager is learning to “reclaim her attention in a distracted world”. Being present. Sarah doesn’t describe distraction as a notification or a screen.She describes it as a vacuum cleaner. “It’s loud,” she says. “And when it’s on, you can’t think about anything else.” Sarah is a student navigating school, friendships, illness, homework, and—like…
