IMO, what you describe is what I like in forcing remote communication: you are forced to take the time to lay down on paper^Wtext what your problem is; that for

IMO, what you describe is what I like in forcing remote communication: you are forced to take the time to lay down on paper^Wtext what your problem is; that forces you to decompose it methodically so that you will be understood. That process, by itself, often brings the light and makes the communication unnecessary: you solved the problem by concentrating properly on it in order to explain it. Also (warning, this will sound snarky), what I liked in remote work is not being interrupted by people who do what you like to do: thinking out loud and using me either as an answering juke-box (I should stop what I am doing, switch to concentrate on your problem, while you obviously haven't given it as much time as you expect me to give it, since you are building it as you speak) or just as a mirror.