Async: What's Important to Distributed Teams?

To me, it feels like distributed teams, 2018 is 10 times easier than distributed teams, 2006, 2008. So what are some of the tools and things you put in place? We use Zoom for like calls. We do so many video calls, constantly hopping on calls to like chat over stuff. We've built an internal tool called async, modeled around the idea of asynchronous communication.