Interesting, thought provoking posts, but you seem to have used two different tags that pop up in search:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/project-allocation/ (the Discomfort is Bad piece)

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/closed-allocation/ (the earlier Only Real Option piece)

There's also the more systematic Quora/Forbes piece: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/11/26/what-is-open-al...