A couple of thoughts:
1. 'Remote first' is a new buzzword that describes how organizations organize around remote workers as the default. A bit of Googling will probably provide descriptions of organizations facing similar change and how they dealt with it.
2. The first order solution is not at the employee end. It is at the organization's end structuring communications and changing operations so that the remote worker is a first class employee. This means that normal practices like making decisions over drinks after hours is out and that means that people in the home office have more work to do to make it work than the remote workers.
3. Scott Hanselman's list is useful for remote workers: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/30TipsForSuccessfulCommunicati... But it is a secondary tool. The primary accommodations still need to happen among the home office workers.
Besides Hanselman who has been working remote for Microsoft for many years, Cognitect's podcast is another good resource and over it's lifetime the company has shifted its operations to provide equitable treatment for remote workers.
Anyway, it's a people problem not a tech problem. Therefore it is a hard problem.
Good luck.
