LAUNCHING APRIL 1st 2025
Combine Your Passions Into A Singular Purpose
The FUSE Pathway is a guide for designing a life rich in creativity, purpose, and joy—empowering you to grow and live in alignment with your truest self every step of the way.

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What inspires you? What lights you up? What do you love to do?
You then combine those passions into a personal vision. Being a fusioneer requires following your heart and pursuing what lights a fire within you. Artist and engineer Paul Kirby guides you through his proprietary FUSE method: Find your passions, Upgrade your skills, Start fusing, and continually Evolve. He illustrates key principles using examples from his own journey creating Dulcinea, a highly specialized robot that paints art, and stories of famous innovators like Hedy Lamarr.
You will assess your interests and uncover your core purpose through introspective, self-exploratory exercises, then craft a personalized vision and learn how to execute it.
Be the person
you were meant to be.
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For those who feel stuck, stifled, or bored with the traditional path, The FUSE Pathway promises a road map to design a life filled with creativity, purpose, and joy, to continually evolve, and live in fulfillment throughout your entire journey.

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The Fuse Pathway offers a fresh perspective on merging seemingly opposite passions, allowing you to be true to all parts of yourself. Paul Kirby shares real-life stories and a helpful framework to help you weave your interests into a fulfilling lifestyle. Dive into this book if you are ready to embrace the extraordinary essence of your life.”

Thea Rotteveel
"The Fuse Pathway" is a transformative guide that instantly ignites the spark of purpose and empowers readers to navigate life with clarity and conviction. Paul Kirby masterfully blends his brilliance and personal insights with actionable and functional strategies, making this book an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to align their passions with their optimal potential.
Paul’s wisdom is especially powerful for entrepreneurs striving to build a purpose-driven business. By helping readers clarify their vision and take intentional steps forward, The Fuse Pathway equips business leaders with the tools to innovate, adapt, and thrive. As a strategist, I have seen this concept be a life-changing stimulus for so many great leaders over the years.
Whether you’re at a crossroads or simply looking to elevate your personal or professional life, The Fuse Pathway is a must-read that will inspire and guide you every step of the way. This book is more than a guide—it’s a catalyst for meaningful change that I would recommend to everyone.

Amber Vilhauer
Paul Kirby I feel like I have watched Paul live this book over the 24 years since I first walked into his studio during a lunch break at a drawing workshop where we met as teacher (me) and student (Paul). That first encounter with Dulcinea, his painting machine, started conversations on Renaissance painting, composition and analyses of Old Master paintings which continued in museums all over Europe as Paul joined me on 9 different sketching tours.
Each trip adding concepts that turned into computer code in the hands of an artist/engineer, combining what I feel many would consider to be mutually exclusive. Paul's life is the best example of his book, living a life of purposeful enjoyment in discovery and creativity."

Glenn Vilppu
Meet The Original Fusioneer
Paul Kirby
Although he was not aware of it, Paul has been living the FUSE model since 1977. While earning an electrical engineering degree at UC Berkeley, he applied for and was accepted into their ROTC program. Upon graduating in 1972, he was commissioned an officer in the US Air Force and served four years during the later part of the Vietnam War. While working in an Air Force research lab he was awarded two commendation medals.
After taking a self-assessment test in his second year of the MBA program at the Harvard Business School, he scored high in theoretical, which was not a surprise, but he also scored high in esthetic, which was a surprise. The other attributes were clustered much lower. Puzzling with what to do with this assessment and a future career path, and while walking on a footbridge across the Charles River on the evening of October 23, 1977, he was struck with the idea to combine technology and art and build a robot that paints. That was the first of three profound moments for him.
During the weekends of 1980–1981, Paul built his first painting robot while working in product marketing at a division of Hewlett-Packard. He later went on to have a successful career in venture capital. After retiring, and wondering what to do, he experienced his second profound moment in 1994. While on a skiing trip in Europe, he visited a Leonardo da Vinci museum exhibit. Walking out, and overwhelmed with what he had seen, he knew at that moment it was time to pursue his original dream—the fusion of art and science.
Paul then spent the next twenty-five years on his fusioneering journey, happily building his robot, Dulcinea, and together creating many paintings. Unknowingly, the third profound “moment” was about to occur. He was overwhelmed with the intensity and excitement exhibited by gifted fourth and fifth graders and at-risk high school kids visiting his studio. He realized he had been given many gifts and that he had a deep responsibility to give back, to share what he’d done, and to excite and inspire others to pursue their own dreams. An outgrowth of that was the formulation of this FUSE framework—one he had lived—and this book. He hopes you too are inspired to find your pathway and lead a rich and fulfilling life as you were meant to.