Ask HN: How might we improve working remotely?

We've only started having more remote people about half a year ago, so not an expert, but a great way we've used to tackle the absence of water cooler conversations is using Donut - it's a Slack app that regularly pairs up random team members for one-hour chats. It's a great way for getting to know people you might not work with directly and improve collaboration. We also have daily standup meetings and weekly meetings without a specific agenda (the agenda fills up as a week goes by, and it's sometimes good to just chat and connect too). Hope that helps :)