Maverick,

I love your P.I.E. framework of virality. I'm not sure how much you've looked into the academic literature on virality (except, of course, that your P.I.E. article drew from the literature on the VAD framework)

I'm starting in on writing about virality as well and in one of the first articles I'm writing, I wanted to provide examples of content that has gone viral from Medium. I was wondering if you'd be willing to share a screenshot of the statistics from your $500 story, or to allow me to use a part of the one that you've posted in this article (mainly, I'm interested in using the "views" porton).

If you're open to it, I'll make sure you are credited for it in the article I write and will happily link back to either this article or another page that you want me to.

Also, I'd love to talk more about virality (and how it relates to other real-world phenomena like charisma). I'm an academic researcher who has studied a little of this and I'm planning on starting to unpack some of it for Medium.

J