JoeVanz Travel Services Inc

26/05/2026

AIRFARES SET TO INCREASE DUE TO FUEL SURCHARGE

The Department of Transportation's Civil Aeronautics Board announces the implementation of fuel surcharge rate starting this 16th to 30th of April 2026, which shall follow the increase in airfares to Level 19.

This indicates that domestic flight fares shall surge from approximately P627 to P1,834, while foreign flight fares increase from approximately P2,070.77 to P15,397.15. This implementation follows the interim implementation of the 15-day cycle for the imposition of passenger and cargo fuel surcharge. | via Kathleen Elises/UM, SunStar Davao Intern

📷 Civil Aeronautics Board

12/11/2025

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The “Post-It Principle”: How a Failed Glue Accidentally Stuck a Company Together

In 1968, a chemist at 3M named Spencer Silver was trying to invent a super-strong adhesive.
Instead, he made the opposite… a weak, pressure-sensitive glue that barely stuck to anything.

It was useless.
Or so everyone thought.

For years, he tried convincing other departments to use it. Nobody cared.
“Who wants a glue that doesn’t stick?” they laughed.

Then one day, another 3M employee named Art Fry faced a totally different problem.
He sang in his church choir and kept losing his bookmarks in the hymnal… they kept slipping out.

He remembered Spencer’s “failed glue” and had an idea:
What if he used it to create reusable sticky notes that could stay in place without tearing the paper?

The first prototypes were small yellow squares… simple, cheap, and oddly satisfying to peel and place.

3M called them Post-it Notes.
They became one of the most successful office products in history… used in more than 100 countries, generating billions in sales.

The Marketing Lesson:

The biggest breakthroughs rarely come from invention.
They come from reinterpretation.

Spencer didn’t create something new… he saw something wrong in a new way.

That’s the power of repurposing mistakes.

That’s why:
• Netflix didn’t invent movies… they reimagined distribution.
• Uber didn’t invent taxis… they reimagined access.
• Airbnb didn’t invent travel …they reimagined trust.

Innovation isn’t about starting over.
It’s about seeing overlooked value in what already exists.

🤓The Nerdy Takeaway:

Failure isn’t the end of the story…it’s the raw material for your next breakthrough.

The “Post-It Principle” proves that sometimes your worst idea just needs the right problem to make it brilliant.

So the next time something doesn’t work…
Don’t throw it away.
Stick with it.