The 300-hour problem has a consistency answer.

CFA Institute estimates candidates spend around 300 hours preparing for Level I. Almost nobody fails for lack of material — there are excellent textbooks, question banks, and video courses. Candidates fail because life happens: a project ships, a week slips, and re-opening a 400-page book after ten days off feels like starting over.

I built DailyCharter to attack that single failure mode. Email is the one place I already show up every morning, so I put my own study notes there. One pill a day is small enough that you never skip it, and the sequence is large enough to cover every Level I topic area, in exam-weighted order.

The method

Each pill follows the same skeleton: a plain-language explanation of one learning outcome, the formula when there is one, and a single exam-style question with a worked answer that also explains why the wrong choices are wrong — because the exam's distractors are designed around predictable mistakes, and learning the mistake is half the point.

Weekly recap emails quiz you on the previous seven pills. Concepts you miss re-enter your queue on a spaced-repetition schedule. There is no app, no streak counter, no dashboard — the whole thing lives in the inbox you already check.

What this is not

This isn't a company or a commercial exam-prep product — it's my own notes, shared privately with friends by invitation. It's not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by CFA Institute. All content is original, written to address the publicly available Level I learning outcomes. CFA® and Chartered Financial Analyst® are registered trademarks owned by CFA Institute.

Say hello

Questions, corrections, or a topic you'd like covered sooner in the sequence? Reply to any pill — I read every reply — or write to hello@daily-charter.com.