I am a recent remote developer and I found these insights to be very valuable, especially the "going out of your way to be human" one.

I was in senior/lead position and part of my responsibilities were to mentor younger (professionally speaking) engineers and make sure the team is executing effectively. While these are not explicit responsibilities in my new gig, I wonder how would one go about doing them as a remote senior/tech lead. One thing that I miss is that having a finger on the team's pulse. I don't know if the teammates are motivated. Emotions are often filtered out of communication through email or slack or whatever. And you get a limited amount of video call time per day with the whole team. Wondering if anyone else went through the same problem and figured out a way.