Last year, when COVID was still new, I did this talk at Scaling Agile Summit about the experiences I made with distributed software development teams during the last 20 years.
The slides are here.
The PDF is available here.
The two most referenced concepts (and my favourite ones, too) are:
(1) The build up & evolution of a product-team org-structure and microservices architechture:
(2) The Trust vs. Time model:
do what you love - and the rest comes easy 