do you really want to put a lot of work into something when you're not sure it'll take off?

For some reason it makes more sense to me worded like that, lol. I always think of it as "I'm not doing any work until I see other people doing it", which just seems like a silly argument to me. "I don't want to waste my time until I'm sure this'll go somewhere" still isn't something that resonates with me, but I get it more.