This document contains a series of tweets by Bridget Kromhout discussing challenges and best practices for distributed teams. She lives in Minneapolis but works for Pivotal in San Francisco, highlighting the distributed nature of her work. Some of the topics discussed include empathy, clear communication, emotional literacy, asynchronous communication, examining assumptions, and architecting systems for failure in distributed environments. References are provided at the end related to distributed systems, durable communication, coordination in distributed teams, and Conway's Law.