Puri: Paternity leave is more useful split into intermittent intervals
Shaan Puri · I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything. · Nov 12, 2025 · at 5:32
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss the utility of traditional continuous paternity leave versus taking intermittent time off during child rearing.
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“What I actually think is useful, take the week off before birth to, like, do little stuff around the house, just be there, be a calming presence, and like, kind of like, I don't know, take the load of everyday life off of, you know, your partner before birth. I think that's actually really useful. Then, you know, the first week or so, the first few days, just you want to have the calendar clear because you never know what's going to happen in a birth. Like, you know, you never know what's going on. After that, you're really kind of like not that, not particularly useful, I would say, or like I felt this way. I wasn't particularly useful and kind of wish, and I ended up doing this with my other kids, like, you know, plan time that's like more intermittent.”
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