Speaking personally, it's more dysfunction than anything -- I'm working, have a tab open w/ SN in my browser, and when the little red dot appears on the tab, I pounced, so that the person would feel attended to. Wasn't a great day for my productivity, it must be admitted, but it was fun for me :)
It was all manual typing. The only thing pre-authored were those initial seed questions.
I hope you don't feel like you need to do anything special to prepare, bc you really don't, other than reading the section of the book. And I'll try to make that less necessary to do next time, by providing some prompts that connect to the book but that someone who's been thinking about the btc space for a while can engage with.
It might be useful to @k00b if you described the context you wish the notifications might have had? I've been noodling on that, too, in a more general way: how could you make the notifications maximally useful for following a conversation?