You need to work with people who value async communications and uninterrupted work time (or cultivate this culture). I recently moved to EU and it's very very difficult for me to adapt to people insisting on having a call or a meeting for everything. It's such a waste of time and the knowledge is completely lost unless you make notes... in text. Before that I worked in SEA, with teams from across the time zones but in a very "Asian" context. Perhaps since not everybody spoke perfect English, the teams actually preferred typing.

For a while I worked on a 1pm-9pm schedule which gave me a decent overlap with the "let's have a quick call" folks. Having the whole morning to myself was nice.