It's much better working on a truly distributed team than being the one remote worker on a mostly-centralized team. My group at Mozilla is distributed across s

It's much better working on a truly distributed team than being the one remote worker on a mostly-centralized team. My group at Mozilla is distributed across seven cities (I think) on two continents. We use all of the techniques Atwood listed. At Mozilla, where a large portion of the staff is in Mountain View, it helps that my manager is working remotely just like me - so I'm not more remote from him than anyone else is.