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A big one as been making it a point to contact everyone on the team regularly, even if there's nothing urgent to discuss. This could be via email or video chat. If there's no programmatic reason to chat, I'll surely have come across some new tidbit of information or insight that's at least tangentially related to work and use that as an excuse. One of the dudes I'm working with is a far better C++ coder than me, so I'm regularly asking him questions, but I'm also mentoring some junior engineers, and I'll reach out to point out things to them.

For colleagues that I'm not directly working with but want to stay in contact with, I'll email them at least every few months with any interesting problems that I solved as well as the approach that are might be of interest to them. On my team, we'll regularly do tech surveys for advancing areas of our project, and the results of them will also get sent out. I also know their interests, and if I come across something they might like, I won't hesitate to send it their way.

It's really easy to buckle down and only address what's in front of your nose. But people get weird when that goes on too long. Better to take a break a couple times a week and check in with everyone else. I find that our morning scrum isn't enough.