We have a private slack channel for banter. We all get on-site 5-6 times/year where we front-load our team-building via beers/activities and get face time. We'

We have a private slack channel for banter. We all get on-site 5-6 times/year where we front-load our team-building via beers/activities and get face time. We've also found that there is some informal coffee talk with people who get to our occasional video call meetings early. Other members of the team have just started doing random 1:1s with each other to replace "coffee collisions". Our culture at FS involves something called "RAEB" (the redundant array of expensive brains) and we'll often just drop half-baked ideas into slack with the expectation that nobody _has_ to evaluate it, but it may occasionally spark future work. We will also go back from time-to-time and search thru Slack history to see if there was anything that popped up that we should dig into more deeply. I think that creativity just takes on a different form in a remote team.