In the first episode of the (Blind) Man in Black (BMIB), Brian Snyder interviews deprofessionalized intellectual, author, activist, and advisor to the EZLN (Zapatistas), Gustavo Esteva. The (B)MIB explores Gustavo’s life, his indigenous Zapotec roots, being the youngest executive at IBM and Procter & Gamble, finding love during Marxist guerrilla warfare training, his friendship with Ivan Illich, radical kindness during COVID-19, and much more.